Johannes Diderik van der Waals
One year after his daughter Jacqueline had died
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids." Van der Waals started his career as a schoolteacher, before becoming the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when its status was upgraded to Municipal University in 1877.
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science · Dutch physicist (1837–1923) · physicist · chemist · mathematician · theoretical physicist · university teacher · teacher · also Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Johannes van der Waals, J.D. van der Waals, Waals
Born 23 November 1837 · Died 8 March 1923 · Q131721
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1923· 2 entries
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Died 1923-03-08.
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1910· 4 entries
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1910).
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"for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
At the age of 72, Van der Waals was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics
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1908· 1 entry
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Onnes became the first to make liquid helium; this led directly to his 1911 discovery of superconductivity
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1898· 1 entry
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And of helium by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1908
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1890· 1 entry
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Van der Waals published a treatise on the Theory of Binary Solutions in the Archives Néerlandaises
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1873· 1 entry
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Van der Waals defended his doctoral thesis Over de Continuïteit van den Gas- en Vloeistoftoestand (on the continuity of the gaseous and liquid state) under Pieter Rijke
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1869· 1 entry
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The existence of critical temperatures in fluids
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1865· 3 entries
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Van der Waals was appointed as a physics teacher at the HBS in Deventer and in 1866, he received such a position in The Hague, which was close enough to Leiden to allow Van der Waals to resume his courses at the universi
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And the couple had three daughters (Anne Madeleine, Jacqueline E
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He married his wife Anna Magdalena Smit in 1865, and the couple had three daughters (Anne Madeleine, Jacqueline E. van der Waals, Johanna Diderica) and one son, the physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Jr., who also worked at the University of Amsterdam.
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1863· 1 entry
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The Dutch government started a new kind of secondary school (HBS, a school aiming at the children of the higher middle classes)
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1862· 1 entry
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Van der Waals began to attend lectures in mathematics, physics and astronomy at the university in his city of birth, although he was not qualified to be enrolled as a regular student in part because of his lack of educat
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1837· 1 entry
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Born 1837-11-23.
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