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Johannes van der Waals

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Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, known for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. He made significant contributions to the understanding of intermolecular forces and the behavior of substances at different temperatures and pressures.

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1. Johannes van der Waals received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910.
2. The van der Waals equation is widely used to describe real gas behavior.
3. Scientists often study the van der Waals forces between molecules.

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