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Johannes Diderik van der Waals ( November 23 , 1837 – March 8 , 1923 ) was a Dutch Scientist famous "for his work on the equation of state for Gas es and Liquid s", for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910 . Van der Waals was the first to realize the necessity of taking into account the volumes of molecules and the Intermolecular Force s (now generally called "van der Waals forces") in establishing the relationship between the pressure, volume and temperature of gases and liquids. LIFE Van der Waals was born in Leiden , the Netherlands, as the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg. He became a school teacher, and later was allowed to study at the university, in spite of his lack of education in the field of Classical Language s. He studied from 1862 to 1865, earning degrees in Mathematics and Physics . He was married to Anna Magdalena Smit and had three daughters and one son. In 1866, he became director of a secondary school in The Hague . In 1873, he obtained a doctorate degree for his thesis entitled "''Over de Continuïteit van den Gas- en Vloeistoftoestand''" (On the continuity of the gas and liquid state). In 1876, he was appointed the first professor of physics at the University Of Amsterdam . Van der Waals died in Amsterdam in 1923. SEE ALSO SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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