The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910
Awarded on: 1910-11-05
"for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids"
Affiliations:
- Amsterdam University – Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Born: 1837-11-23 in Leiden, the Netherlands
Gender: male
Field: Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Biography
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch 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. He became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when its status was upgraded to Municipal University in 1877.