Johannes Diderik van der Waals
J. D. van der Waals | |
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Born | 23 November 1837 Leiden, Netherlands |
Died | 8 March 1923 (aged 85) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
Alma mater | University of Leiden |
Doctoral advisor | Pieter Rijke |
Doctoral students | Diderik Korteweg |
Known for | van der Waals equation |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1910) |
Spouse | Anna Magdalena Smit (m. 1865) |
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Sr. (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch physicist, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics.[1]
Notes and references
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References
- ↑ Waals [sr.], Johannes Diderik van der. In Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland; Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, <http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/waalssr>.
External links
See also the corresponding article on Wikipedia. |
- Biography from the Nobel Foundation
- Biography from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
- "The Equation of State for Gases and Liquids" (Nobel lecture)
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