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In 1873 the Dutch physicist Johannes Diederik van der Waals (1837–1923) obtained his doctoral degree for a thesis on the continuity of the gas and liquid state in which he put forward his famous equation of state that included both the gaseous and liquid states. He showed that these two states could merge in a continuous manner and are in fact the same, their only difference being of a quantitative and not of a qualitative nature. These results were considered very important,1 and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 “for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.”
Maxwell regarded van de Waals as one of the foremost physicists in molecular science.
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(2007). van der Waals Equation. In: Essentials of Mathematica. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49514-9_35
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