Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908
Wolcott Gibbs papers, 1845-1908.
Scientific and personal correspondence, daguereotypes; realia. Includes letters relating to the founding of the University Club at Harvard, to a fund to honor August Willhelm Hofmann, to the Bache Fund, and to the National Academy of Science; and a daguereotype of Alexander Dallas Bache. Correspondents include: Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Ogden Nicholas Rood, A. Agassiz, J. S. Billings, Alice B. Gould, A. Hall, A. A. Michelson, Simon Newcomb, Ira Remsen, S. C. Sargent, and C. W. Shoemaker, among others.
Chemist (Ammonia-cobalt compounds; metals of platinum group; new methods of analysis; complex inorganic acids). A. M. Columbia College, 1841; M. D. Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1845; Berlin, 1845; Giessen, 1846; Paris, 1847. Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Free Academy of New York, 1884-1863; Rumford professor and lecturer applied science, Harvard College, 1863-1887, emeritus professor, 1887.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Physicists -- Correspondence.
Scientists -- Correspondence.
Daguerreotype. lcsh
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.
Bache Fund
AIP-ICOS
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