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Johannes Diderik van Der Waals Biography and Timeline

Follow Johannes Diderik van Der Waals through 5 dated historical records for Netherlands.

Johannes Diderik van Der Waals, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1837–1923Years on this page

1837

Birth of Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Science / Physics

Birth of Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1877

Professor

Amsterdam · Science / Physics

Becomes the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when it opened in 1877

1890

A treatise on the Theory of Binary Solutions

Science / Physics

Publishes A treatise on the Theory of Binary Solutions in the Archives N‚erlandaises

1910

Nobel Prize

Science / Physics

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics

1923

Death of Johannes Diderik van Der Waals

Science / Physics

Death of Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Records, sources and methodology

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