Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 - March 8, 1923) Dutch scientist famous "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1910. Table of contents 1 Life 2 Related topics 3 See also 4 External links Life Van der Waals was born in Leyden, the Netherlands, as the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg. He became a school teacher, and later was allowed to study at the university, in spite of his lack of classical languages. He studied from 1862 to 1865, earning degrees in mathematics and physics. In 1866, he became director of a secondary school in The Hague. In 1873, he obtained a doctorate degree. Van der Waals died in Amsterdam. Related topics Van der Waals bonding Van der Waals equation Van der Waals force Van der Waals radius See also List of chemistry topics List of chemists Nobel Prize in Physics External links http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1910/waals-bio.html A biography. Johannes Diderik van der Waals photo & info section still incomplete, needs editing This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.