Van-der-waals-johannes-diderik definition

Dutch physicist who won a 1910 Nobel Prize for deriving a new equation for the behavior of liquids and gases that, unlike the ideal gas law, takes into account the properties of real gases.

Dutch physicist who accounted for many phenomena concerning gases and liquids by postulating the existence of intermolecular forces and a finite molecular volume. He derived a new equation of state for gases and liquids (now named for him), and for this work he received the 1910 Nobel Prize for physics.