Editing Johannes Diderik van der Waals

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'''Johannes Diderik van der Waals''' (November 23, 1837 &ndash; March 8, 1923).
[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1910/index.html Nobel Laureate] in physics in the year 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids".
==Related pages==
*[[Van der Waals equation of state]]
*[[Van der Waals' density gradient theory]]
*[[Law of corresponding states]]
==External links==
*[http://www.knaw.nl/waals/waals.html Biography on Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences web site]
*[http://www.digitallibrary.nl/proceedings/authors_detail.cfm?RecordId=7 Publications in Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen]
==Interesting reading==
*J. D. van der Waals "Over de Continuiteit van den Gas- en Vloeistoftoestand", doctoral thesis, Leiden, A,W, Sijthoff (1873).
English translation:
*[http://store.doverpublications.com/0486495930.html J. D. van der Waals "On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States", Dover Publications]  ISBN 0486495930
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/010477a0 J. C. Maxwell "Van der Waals on the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states", Nature '''10''' pp.  477-480 (1874)]
*[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1910/waals-lecture.pdf Johannes Diderik van der Waals "The Equation of State for Gases and Liquids", Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1910]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00535-4  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)]
==Publications list==
Incomplete list:
#[http://www.digitallibrary.nl/proceedings/search/detail.cfm?pubid=220&view=image&startrow=1 J. D. van der Waals "Simple deduction of the characteristic equation for substances with extended and composite molecules", Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Amsterdam Proc. Sec. Sci. '''1''' pp. 138-143 (1899)]
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