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The Nobel Prize in Physics
Johannes Diderik van
der Waals Amsterdam University , Amsterdam,The Netherlands "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" ----------------------------------------------- Van der Waals acknowledged inspiration from an 1857 paper by Clausius on the kind of motion we call heat. A gas is pictured as consisting of a myriad of material points bouncing about at great speed. Van der Waals' idea of continuity was that there is no essential difference between gaseous and liquid states of matter.
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