Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923).
Nobel Laureate in physics in the year 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids".
See also
Interesting reading
- J. D. van der Waals "On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States", Dover Publications ISBN: 0486495930
- J. C. Maxwell "Van der Waals on the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states", Nature 10 pp. 477-480 (1874)
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals "The Equation of State for Gases and Liquids", Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1910
- B. Widom "What do we know that van der Waals did not know?", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 263 pp. 500-515 (1999)