Van der Waals is one of the most distinguished men in thermodynamics and author of an equation of state that has become the basis of all modern equations of state and theories of mixtures. Here we give a description of his life and his scientific and academic achievements. The van der Waals equation of state is discussed in detail with the goal of understanding the reasons for its inadequacy to give a quantitative prediction of the behavior of a real gas.
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Hoffmann, Dieter;
(2010)
Max Planck und die moderne Physik
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Rowlinson, J. S.;
(2010)
James Joule, William Thomson and the Concept of a Perfect Gas
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Bartel, Hans-Georg;
Huebener, R. P.;
(2007)
Walther Nernst: Pioneer of Physics and of Chemistry
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Luigi Cerruti;
(2009)
Amedeo Avogadro e lo sviluppo delle scienze nella prima metà dell'Ottocento
(/isis/citation/CBB051114570/)
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Lunteren, Frans van;
(2000)
Bosscha's leerboek en Van der Waals' proefschrift: aantrekkende krachten in Den Haag
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Maas, A. J. P.;
(2001)
Atomisme en individualisme: De Amsterdamse natuurkunde tusen 1877 en 1940
(/isis/citation/CBB000101548/)
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Hoffmann, Dieter;
(2008)
Max Planck: Die Entstehung der modernen Physik
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Book
Eric Johnson;
(2018)
Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy
(/isis/citation/CBB190762202/)
Article
Trainer, Matthew;
(2008)
In Memoriam: Lord Kelvin, Recipient of The John Fritz Medal in 1905
(/isis/citation/CBB000932034/)
Article
Reiter, Wolfgang L.;
(2007)
In Memoriam Ludwig Boltzmann: A Life of Passion
(/isis/citation/CBB000850200/)
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Badino, Massimiliano;
(2010)
Il professore e il suo demone: La lunga lotta di Max Planck contro la statistica (1896--1906)
(/isis/citation/CBB001252424/)
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Neswald, Elizabeth;
(2009)
Ansätze zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Entropie
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Pierre–Michel Vauthelin;
(2017)
Duhem et la thermodynamique française de la fin du XIXe siècle
(/isis/citation/CBB074154000/)
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Marsden, Ben;
(2013)
Ranking Rankine: W. J. M. Rankine (1820--72) and the Making of “Engineering Science” Revisited
(/isis/citation/CBB001420234/)
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Wisniak, Jaime;
(2000)
Benoit Paul Emile Clapeyron: A Short Bibliographical Sketch
(/isis/citation/CBB001252512/)
Article
Simón Reif-Acherman;
(2015)
Between Thermodynamics and Thermometry: The Life and Scientific Achievements of Hugh Longbourne Callendar
(/isis/citation/CBB165748507/)
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Boyd, T. James M.;
(2012)
George Hartley Bryan, Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Stability of Flight
(/isis/citation/CBB001220405/)
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Fortino, Mirella;
(2016)
L’armonia fra storia della scienza ed epistemologia nell’opera di Duhem.
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Vermeer, Leonieke;
(2010)
Coping with Entropy: Utopian Reactions to the Second Law of the Thermodynamics (1860--1920)
(/isis/citation/CBB001021561/)
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Joas, Christian;
Waysand, Georges;
(2014)
Superconductivity: A Challenge to Modern Physics
(/isis/citation/CBB001500407/)
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