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	Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van der Waals was the first to realize the necessity of taking into account the volumes of molecules and the intermolecular forces (now generally called "van der Waals forces") in establishing the relationship between the pressure, volume and temperature of gases and liquids.
		Van der Waals was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, as the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
		Van der Waals died in Amsterdam in 1923.
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	Encyclopedia: Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Van der Waals is one of the most distinguished men in thermodynamics and author of an equation of state that has become the basis of all modern equations of state and theories of mixtures.
		The van der Waals equation of state is discussed in detail with the goal of understanding the reasons for its inadequacy to give a quantitative prediction of the behavior of a real gas.
		Van der Waals interactions are observed in noble gasses, which are very stable and tend not to interact, that is why it is difficult to condense them into liquids.
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	Johannes Diderik van der Waals: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Van der Waals was born in Leiden (Leiden: A city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620), the Netherlands, as the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
		Van der Waals died in Amsterdam (Amsterdam: An industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum) in 1923.
		Van der Waals equation (Van der Waals equation: the van der waals equation is an equation of state for a fluid composed of particles...
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	Van der Waals radius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The van der Waals radius of an atom is the radius of an imaginary hard sphere which can be used to model the atom for many purposes.
		Van der Waals radii are determined from measurements of atomic spacing between pairs of unbonded atoms in crystals.
		The van der Waals radius is named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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	J. D. van der Waals - Biography
		Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born on November 23, 1837 in Leyden, The Netherlands, the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
		It was Van der Waals' genius that made him see the necessity of taking into account the volumes of molecules and the intermolecular forces ("Van der Waals forces", as they are now generally called) in establishing the relationship between the pressure, volume and temperature of gases and liquids.
		The son, Johannes Diderik Jr., was Professor of Physics at Groningen University 1903-08, and subsequently succeeded his father in the Physics Chair of the University of Amsterdam.
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		Waals, Johannes Diderik van der (1837-1923), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
		Van der Waals Forces, weakest of the forces that occur between atoms or molecules, and named after the Dutch physicist, Johannes Diderik van der Waals....
		The forces of attraction account for the cohesion of molecules in the liquid and solid states of matter, and are called long-range forces or van der...
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	KNAW > Van der Waals > Scientists > Van der Waals
		Johannes Diderik Van der Waals (1837-1923) was born in Leiden, the oldest of the ten children of a carpenter.
		In the thesis, he introduced the concepts of molecular volume and molecular attraction (presently known as the Van der Waals force), and described the behavior of condensing gases and criticality by means of the famous Van der Waals equation.
		Van der Waals was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 1875, and to the Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (HMW) in 1878.
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	AllRefer.com - Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Johannes Diderik van der Waals[yOhA´nus dE´durik vAn dur vAls] Pronunciation Key, 1837–1923, Dutch physicist.
		It had been known for some time that the behavior of real gases differs from that of an ideal gas as predicted by thermodynamics and the kinetic-molecular theory of gases.
		Van der Waals was led to the hypothesis of the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states of matter by combining the kinetic theory of gases with Laplace's theory of capillarity.
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	Johannes van der Waals -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Van der Waals received the Nobel prize in physics in 1910 for his research on the gaseous and liquid states of matter in which he developed a formula for the continuity of all gases, the van der Waals equation.
		The forces are named for the Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals, who in 1873 first postulated these intermolecular forces in developing a theory to account for the properties of real gases.
		The Renaissance astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler is best known for his discovery that the orbits in which the Earth and the other planets of the solar system travel around the sun are elliptical, or oval, in shape.
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	About Johannes van der Waals and Pieter Zeeman - Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut - Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Van der Waals received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910.
		In 1908 Van der Waals (Nobel Prize in Physics for 1910) reached the retiring age of 70 and Zeeman was chosen as his successor, at the same time functioning as Director of the Physics Laboratory.
		In 1923 a new laboratory, specially erected for him, was put at his disposal, a prominent feature being a concrete block weighing a quarter of a million kilograms, erected free from the floor, as a suitable platform for vibration-free experiments.
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	KNAW > Van der Waals > How Fluids Unmix
		This achievement was the consequence of the felicitous collaboration of two Dutch physicists and Nobel prize winners, Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923) at the University of Amsterdam, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) at the University of Leiden.
		In 1890, Van der Waals, by generalizing his famous equation of state to fluid mixtures, brought Gibbs’s abstract thermodynamics to practical application.
		Van der Waals’ mixture equation inspired a major experimental effort by Kamerlingh Onnes and his collaborators Kuenen, Keesom, and Verschaffelt.
	www.knaw.nl /waals/fluids.html (270 words)

	Johannes Diderik van der Waals Biography / Biography of Johannes Diderik van der Waals World of Chemistry Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Johannes Diderik van der Waals received his doctorate in physics from the University of Leiden at the relatively late age of thirty-six.
		Van der Waals was born in Leiden in the Netherlands on November 23, 1837.
		His parents were Jacobus van der Waals, a carpenter, and the former Elisabeth van den Burg.
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	Biography of J. D. van der Waals
		Together with Van't Hoff and Hugo de Vries, the geneticist, he contributed to the fame of the University, and remained faithful to it until his retirement, in spite of enticing invitations from elsewhere.
		It was this law which served as a guide during experiments which ultimately led to the liquefaction of hydrogen by J. Dewar in 1898 and of helium by H.
		The daughters were Anne Madeleine who, after her mother's early death, ran the house and looked after her father ;Jacqueline Elisabeth, who was a teacher of history and a well-known poetess; end Johanna Diderica, who was a teacher of English.
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		Van der Waals was appointed the first Professor of Physics and remained faithful to it until his retirement in 1908.
		Van der Waals’ thesis is an addition to the law of Boyle-Gay Lussac EMBED Equation.DSMT4 , where p stands for the pressure of the gas, V for its volume, T for its absolute temperature (measured in kelvin) and R is a constant.
		Van der Waals knew that they are slightly affected by temperature, but at the time of his thesis he had to disregard them.
	www.phys.uu.nl /~vdaalst/Portfolio/Documenten/Geschiedenis/vdwaalsuk15.doc (2689 words)

	Van der Waals equation
		The Van der Waals equation is an equation of state for a fluid composed of particles that have a non-zero size and a pairwise attractive inter-particle force (such as the Van der Waals force.) It was derived by Johannes Diderik van der Waals in 1873, based on a modification of the ideal gas law.
		The derivation of the Van der Waals equation begins with the equation of state of an ideal gas, which is composed of non-interacting point particles:
		We now stop treating the fluid's constituent particles as point particles, instead modelling them as hard spheres with a small radius (the Van der Waals radius.) Denoting the volume of each sphere by b, we modify the equation of state to
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	Johannes Diderik van der Waals Biography / Biography of Johannes Diderik van der Waals Main Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923) did pioneering studies on the equation of state of liquids and gases, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910.
		Johannes van der Waals was born on Nov. 23, 1837, in Leiden, the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elizabeth van den Burg.
		His life is a classic illustration of the fact that lack of proper educational opportunities is not an insurmountable obstacle to greatness in science, provided one's potential is matched by one's determination.
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	Van der Waals radius - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Particularly useful and well known is the van der Waals equation of state: (P + a/V
		The other term that is introduced in the van der Waals equation, a/V
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	Oxford University Press: Van der Waals and Molecular Science: A. Ya. Kipnis
		The development of molecular physics and physical chemistry cannot be understood without a knowledge of the work of Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
		In the years since the end of World War II, there has been a re-appraisal of van der Waals's work, which has established his historic place as one of the founders of molecular science.
		This is the only biography of Johannes van der Waals and should be read by anyone with an interest in the history of physics and chemistry, and its most important innovator.
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		Van der Waals, the son of a carpenter, got a slower start than van't Hoff, the son of a doctor.
		Indeed Van der Waals was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 1910.
		In 1887, when the Amsterdam Athanaeum became the new University of Amsterdam, van der Waals was appointed its first Professor of Physics; and van't Hoff, its first Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology.
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	Van der Waals and Nitrox
		Van der Waals was the man who set about solving the problem by working out how to allow for real gases.
		We can calculate it but Van der Waals' equation as stated above only applies to the simple monatomic gases and as the molecules of one gas see the others nothing is simple.
		The pressure may drop a little quickly to start with because that 200-300 bar slice of the fill was only 84% of the 0-100 or 100-200 parts of the fill.
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		VAN DER WAALS, JOHANNES DIDERIK (1837 - 1923).
		In 1873, van der Waals 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), which put him at once in the foremost rank of physicists.
		Van der Waals won the Nobel Prize for this work in 1910.
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	Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics
		The van der Waals Identity (submitted by Henry M Paynter)
		The van der Waals Identity (submitted by Prof Henry M Paynter)
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