As of 2021, 79 awards have been presented. In 2021, three awards to five sites were made: Yale University, for J. Willard Gibbs’s 1876 paper explaining the laws of thermodynamics Kyoto University, for ...

Willard Gibbs and Ludwig Boltzmann. They revealed the nature of equilibrium and the factors that control the direction of spontaneous change. With the discovery of quantum mechanics, Paul Dirac ...