Van der Waals or Van der Waal may refer to:
People
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Fransje van der Waals (born 1950), Dutch medical physician
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Grace VanderWaal
Grace Avery VanderWaal (born January 15, 2004) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is known for her distinctive vocals and has often accompanied herself on the ukulele.
VanderWaal began her musical career by posting videos of her ...
(born 2004), American singer-songwriter
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Henk van der Waal (born 1960), Dutch poet
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Joan van der Waals
Joan Henri van der Waals (2 May 1920 – 21 June 2022) was a Dutch physicist. He was professor of experimental physics at Leiden University between 1967 and 1989. He specialized in molecular physics and clathrate hydrates. One of van der Waals' ...
(1920–2022), Dutch physicist
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (; 23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. Van der Waals started his career as a sch ...
(1837–1923), Dutch physicist
* (1912–1950), Dutch spy, in German service during World War II (see Dutch resistance)
Physics
There are a series of subjects named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals:
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Van der Waals force
In molecular physics, the van der Waals force is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules. Unlike ionic or covalent bonds, these attractions do not result from a chemical electronic bond; they are comparatively weak and th ...
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Van der Waals equation
In chemistry and thermodynamics, the Van der Waals equation (or Van der Waals equation of state) is an equation of state which extends the ideal gas law to include the effects of interaction between molecules of a gas, as well as accounting for ...
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Van der Waals molecule
A Van der Waals molecule is a weakly bound complex of atoms or molecules held together by intermolecular attractions such as Van der Waals forces or by hydrogen bonds.
The name originated in the beginning of the 1970s when stable molecular clust ...
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Van der Waals radius
The van der Waals radius, ''r'', of an atom is the radius of an imaginary hard sphere representing the distance of closest approach for another atom.
It is named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics, ...
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Van der Waals surface
The Van der Waals surface of a molecule is an abstract representation or model of that molecule, illustrating where, in very rough terms, a surface might reside for the molecule based on the hard cutoffs of Van der Waals radii for individual at ...
Other uses
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Van der Waals (crater), named after the physicist
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Mona Vanderwaal
Mona Vanderwaal is a fictional Character (arts), character in the ''Pretty Little Liars (book series), Pretty Little Liars'' book series, its Pretty Little Liars, television adaptation, and the spin-off TV series ''Pretty Little Liars: The Perfect ...
, ''Pretty Little Liars'' character
See also
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Van der Wal Van der Wal (or van de Wal, Vander Wal, Vanderwal, van de Wall, VanderWaal) is a toponymic surname of Dutch origin. The original bearer of the name may have lived or worked at or near a "wal": a river embankment, quay, or rampart. In 2007, Van de(r) ...
, surname
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