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 theoretical physicist (1837–1923)
Biography
Johannes Diderik van der Waals 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. He became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when its status was upgraded to Municipal University in 1877.