People

• Fransje van der Waals
  Fransje van der Waals
  Fransje van der Waals is a Dutch medical physician and founder of the non-profit organisation Health[e]Foundation.- Career :...
  
   (born 1950), Dutch medical physician
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids....
  
   (1837–1923), Dutch physicist

Physics

• the Van der Waals force
  Van der Waals force
  In physical chemistry, the van der Waals force , named after Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, is the sum of the attractive or repulsive forces between molecules other than those due to covalent bonds or to the electrostatic interaction of ions with one another or with neutral...
  
  , named after the physicist
• the Van der Waals equation
  Van der Waals equation
  The van der Waals equation is an equation of state for a fluid composed of particles that have a non-zero volume and a pairwise attractive inter-particle force It was derived by Johannes Diderik van der Waals in 1873, who received the Nobel prize in 1910 for "his work on the equation of state for...
  
  , named after the physicist
• the Van der Waals radius
  Van der Waals radius
  The van der Waals radius, r, of an atom is the radius of an imaginary hard sphere which can be used to model the atom for many purposes. It is named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics, as he was the first to recognise that atoms had a finite size and to...
  
  , named after the physicist