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Oliver Wolcott Gibbs

1822 - 1908

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Dr. Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1822-1908), better known as Wolcott Gibbs, was the Rumford Professor of Chemistry at Harvard between 1863 and 1887.

His friends included Alvan Clark.
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F. W. Clarke, Biographical Memoir of Wolcott Gibbs 1822-1908  (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1910). http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/gibbs-wolcott.pdf

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