Named after the Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals – who first proposed it in 1873 to explain the behaviour of gases – it is a very weak force that only becomes relevant when atoms and ...

Van der Waals forces represent a fundamental type of interaction between molecules. Named after the Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, these intermolecular forces include attractions and ...

The name of the speaker is a tribute to the Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Johannes Diderik van der Waals, who derived an equation of state that proved that the aggregation states of gas and ...

WITH Johannes Diderik van der Waals, who died on March 8 at Amsterdam, at eighty-five years of age, one of the great figures in the history of modern physics and physical chemistry has passed away.