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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" Amsterdam University, the Netherlands 1837 - 1923
Born on November 23, 1837 in Leyden, The Netherlands Studied at Leyden University in his spare time during 1862-65 In 1873 he obtained his doctor's degree for a thesis entitled Over de Continuiteit van den Gas - en Vloeistoftoestand (On the continuity of the gas and liquid state) In 1876,Van der Waals was appointed the first Professor of Physics together with Van't Hoff and Hugo de Vries Died in Amsterdam on March 8, 1923.
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