For 10 points, name this American scientist who names a type of "free energy."
It doesn't involve a "demon," but this man proposed a problem involving mixing two chambers of gas that appears to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. One quantity named for this man is equal to surface area times surface tension, and he proposed a formula for the degrees of freedom in his (*) namesake phase rule. The change in one quantity named for this man is proportional to the natural log of the equilibrium constant, and is also equal to negative delta H minus T times delta S. A quantity named for this man determines whether a reaction is spontaneous. For 10 points, name this American scientist who names a type of "free energy."
It doesn't involve a "demon," but this man proposed a problem involving mixing two chambers of gas that appears to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Josiah Willard Gibbs (accept Gibbs paradox; accept Gibbs free energy; accept Gibbs phase rule)