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Name: Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Birth Date: November 23, 1837
Death Date: March 8, 1923
Place of Birth: Leiden, Holland
Place of Death: Amsterdam, Holland
Nationality: Dutch
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Johannes Diderik van der Waals
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals received his doctorate in physics from the University of Leiden at the relatively late age of thirty-six. His doctoral dissertation, "On the Continuity of Gaseous and Liquid States," quickly became known among his...
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Born into a poor family in Holland, van der Waals was the son of a carpenter. As a young adult, he began teaching elementary school to support himself while training for secondary-level teaching. While working as a headmaster, or school principal, he...
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The Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923) did pioneering studies on the equation of state of liquids and gases, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910. Johannes van der Waals was born on Nov. 23, 1837, in Leiden,...


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Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids which describe the relation between the pressure, volume, and...


 

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