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 ...
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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 Li...
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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 Li...
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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. Whil...
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals