Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Full Name-
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Born-
23 November 1837 
Died-
8 March 1923


  • Awards-

  1. Noble prize in Physics(1910)
  2. Member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow

Famous For-

  1. Founding for modern molecular physics(molecular theory)
  2. Founding modern theory of intermolecular forces
  3. Law of corresponding states
  4. Real gas law
  5. van der Waals forces
  6. van der Waals equation of state
  7. van der Waals radius
  8. van der Waals surface
  9. van der Waals molecule

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