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= Johannes Diderik van der Waals
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923) was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist best known for his work on the behavior of gases and liquids. He is particularly renowned for formulating the van der Waals equation of state, which describes how real gases deviate from the ideal gas law by incorporating the effects of molecular attraction and the volume occupied by gas molecules.