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A paper which looks at the life and career of van der Waals and explains the importance of the van der Waals Equation of State in the development of molecular science. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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(2000), van der Waals importance in the scientific community is primarily due to the equation of state which he developed which has become the foundation of modern equations of
state and theories of mixtures. Van der Waals was born in 1837 in Leyden, the Netherlands, and as the Nobel Institute (1967) points out, it was fortuitous that he was
able to obtain a university education, since he had no qualifications in the classics: it was the introduction of legislation which exempted applicants from this which allowed him to obtain
his doctorate. It was in his doctoral
thesis that he set out the Equation of State which dealt with the properties of materials in both a gaseous and a liquid state, asserting that the two states not
only merged into one another but were of the same nature. The Institute quotes James Clerk Maxwell as stating at the time "the name of Van der Waals will soon
be among the foremost in molecular science" (Maxwell, cited 1967). In 1876 van der Waals was appointed Professor of Physics at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, when it achieved university
status, and he remained there until his retirement.
In 1880 he published the Law of Corresponding States, which demonstrated that if pressure is expressed as a simple function of critical pressure, and volume as critical volume and
temperature as critical temperature, then a general form of the Equation of State can be derived which can be applied to all substances. This was the law which guided studies
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