Johannes Diderik van der Waals



Johannes van der Waals

Johannes Diderik van der Waals
BornNovember 23 1837(1837-11-23)
Leiden, Netherlands
DiedMarch 8 1923 (aged 85)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ResidenceNetherlands
NationalityDutch
FieldPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Amsterdam
Alma materUniversity of Leiden
Academic advisor  Pieter Rijke
Notable students  Diederik Korteweg
Known forvan der Waals equation of state
Notable prizes Nobel Prize for Physics (1910)
He is notably the father of the poet Jacqueline Elisabeth and the physicist Johannes Diderik Jr.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist and van der Waals force.

A second great discovery of van der Waals was published in 1880: The Law of Corresponding States. This law shows, that after scaling temperature, pressure, and volume by their respective critical values, a general form of the equation of state is obtained which is applicable to all substances. This law served as a guide during the experiments that led to the liquefaction of helium by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.

Van der Waals found his incentive for his life's work after reading the 1857 treatise by Willard Gibbs. For his work he won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics.

Family

  • spouse: Anna Magdalena Smit (m. 1864)
  • children: Anne Madeleine, Jacqueline Elisabeth (poet), Johanna Diderica, Johannes Diderik Jr. (physicist)

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 was later allowed to study at the university, in spite of his lack of education in the field of classical languages. He studied from 1862 to 1865, earning degrees in mathematics and physics. He was married to Anna Magdalena Smit and had three daughters and one son.

In 1866, he became director of a secondary school in The Hague. In 1873, he obtained a doctorate degree in Leiden under Pieter Rijke. In 1876, he was appointed the first professor of physics at the newly established University of Amsterdam.

Van der Waals died in Amsterdam in 1923, one year after his daughter's death.

See also

References

  1. ^ Van der Waals, Johannes, D. (1910). "The Equation of State for Gases and LiquidsPDF (588 KiB)." Nobel Lecture, December 12.

Further reading

  • Kipnis, Aleksandr Yakovlevich; Boris Efimovich Yavelov, and John Shipley Rowlinson (July 1996). Van der Waals and Molecular Science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-855210-6. 
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Nobel Laureates in Physics

Wilhelm Röntgen (1901) • Hendrik Lorentz / Pieter Zeeman (1902) • Marie Curie (1903) • Lord Rayleigh (1904) • Philipp Lenard (1905) • J. J. Thomson (1906) • Albert Michelson (1907) • Gabriel Lippmann (1908) • Guglielmo Marconi / Ferdinand Braun (1909) • Johannes van der Waals (1910) • Wilhelm Wien (1911) • Gustaf Dalén (1912) • Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) • Max von Laue (1914) • W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915) • Charles Barkla (1917) • Max Planck (1918) • Johannes Stark (1919) • Charles Guillaume (1920) • Albert Einstein (1921) • Niels Bohr (1922) • Robert Millikan (1923) • Manne Siegbahn (1924) • James Franck / Gustav Hertz (1925)

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Persondata
NAME Waals, Johannes van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Leiden, Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH Diederik Korteweg
PLACE OF DEATH Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
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