Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1910
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1910
for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
Dutch
date of birth
11/23/1837
place of birth
Leiden
date of death
3/8/1923
place of death
Amsterdam
Lived
85 years
employer
  • University of Amsterdam
    • start time: 10/15/1877
    • end time: 4/29/1908
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/31/1903
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1913
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1916
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
occupation
  • mathematician
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
  • teacher
doctoral student
  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals Jr.
  • Henri Adrien Naber
  • Cornelius Dorsman
  • Johannes C. Schalkwijk
  • Bokko Meilink
  • Obe Postma
  • Adolf van Thijn
  • Diederik Korteweg
  • Willem Hendrik Keesom
  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals Jr.
  • Philipp Kohnstamm
  • Gerrit Hondius Boldingh
notable work
  • van der Waals radius
  • van der Waals equation
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • Leiden University
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