List of Famous people with last name Waals

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

First Name Johannes

Last Name Waals

Born on November 23, 1837

Died on March 8, 1923 (aged 85)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, South Holland

Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. Van der Waals started his career as a school teacher. He became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when in 1877 the old Athenaeum was upgraded to Municipal University. Van der Waals won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

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Jacqueline E. van der Waals

First Name Jacqueline

Born on June 26, 1868

Died on April 29, 1922 (aged 53)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, South Holland

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