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Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Born on November 23, 1837

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Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Dutch:; 23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids." Van der Waals started his career as a schoolteacher, before becoming the first physics professor of…

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