Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 - March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist famous "for his work on liquid gas equation", so he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910. van der Waals forces are the first to recognize the need to remember to molecular volume and intermolecular forces (now called "van der Waals forces") in establishing the relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature of gases and liquids.
biography
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 kemuian allowed to study at university, because of lack of education in classical languages. He studied from 1862 until 1865, received a degree in mathematics and physics. He married Anna Magdalena Smit and has 3 daughters and 1 son.
In 1866, he became director of elementary schools in den Haag. In 1873, he earned his doctorate under Pieter Rijke for his thesis entitled "Over de Continuïteit van den Gas-en Vloeistoftoestand" (On the Continuity of State Gas and Liquid). In 1876, he was appointed the first professor at the University of Amsterdam. van der Waals died in Amsterdam in 1923.
