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The Gibbs Brothers Medal is awarded by the US National Academy of Sciences for "outstanding contributions in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering". It was established by a gift from William Francis Gibbs and Frederic H. Gibbs.

Recipients

1965 - Frederick Henry Todd
1967 - Alfred Adolf Heinrich Kiel
1970 - Henry A. Schade
1974 - Phillip Eisenberg
1976 - John Charles Niedermair
1979 - Matthew Galbraith Forrest
1988 - Leslie A. Harlander
1991 - Bruce G. Collipp
1993 - Olin J. Stephens II
1995 - Owen H. Oakley
1997 - William B. Morgan
1999 - Justin E. Kerwin
2001 - Edward E. Horton
2003 - Alfred C. Malchiodi

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Gibbs Medal info (http://www4.nas.edu/nas/nasaward.nsf/(urllinks)/686DD79F5F1D504A85256A490066B509?opendocument)

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Gibbs, Josiah Willard - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Gibbs, Josiah Willard (324 words)
	Gibbs showed how many thermodynamic laws could be interpreted in terms of the results of the movements of enormous numbers of bodies such as molecules.
	Gibbs was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and studied at Yale and in Europe1866–69.
	The Gibbs adsorption isotherm showed that changes in the concentration of a component of a solution in contact with a surface occur if there is an alteration in the surface tension.

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