GIBBS, GEORGE

(1870); author, illustrator; 6. in New Orleans. _1886-.1888 was at the United States Naval - Academy. Studied art at the Art ‘Students’ League and Corcoran School of Art, Washington. Author and illustrator of Pike and Cuila , 1900; “In Search of Mademoiselle, 1901; The Love of Monsieur, 1905; The Medusa Emerald, 1907; Tony’s Wife, 1909; The Bolted Door, 1911; The Forbidden Way, (1911; The Maker of Opporiunities, 1912; The Silent Battle, 1913; Madcap, 1913; The Flaming Sword, 1914; The Yellow Dove, 1915; Paradise Garden, 1916; The Secret Witne , 1917; The Golden Bough, 1918; The Black Stone, 1919; The Splendid Outcast, 1920; The Vagrant Duke, 1921; Youth Triumphant, 1921. 1903), distinguished Amer. physicist; 6. New Haven; grad. and taught at ‘Yale; honored by London Royal Soc, rs -1908), an American physicist and ‘chemist; b. in New York City. He ‘graduated from Columbia University, in 1841, and from the College of Physicians ‘and Surgeons there, in 1847. From 1849 “until 1863 he was profe or of physics “and chemistry at the College of the City of New York, after which he was for ‘twenty-four years Rumford_ profe or sof chemistry at Harvard University. He ranked at the head of the men in his field during his time and made many ‘contributions to science, especially through his researches in vapor densities. “Wolcott Gibbs Laboratory, at Harvard University, is named from him.