Johannes Diderik van der Waals/Bibliography

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On J. D. van der Waals

• Van Stevin tot Lorentz, Portretten van Nederlandse Natuurwetenschappers. Redactie A. J. Kox, M. Chamalaun, Intermediair Bibliotheek, Amsterdam (1980). ISBN 90 6434 009 9

• A. Ya. Kipnis, B. E. Yavelov, J. S. Rowlinson, Van der Waals and Molecular Science, Oxford University Press (1996). ISBN-10: 0198552106, ISBN-13: 978-0198552109.

• J.S. Rowlinson, J.D. van der Waals, On the Continuity of the Gaseous and the Liquid States, Studies in Statistical Mechanics XIV. J.L. Lebowitz , Ed., North Holland, Amsterdam (1988). (This book contains an English translation of Van der Waals's doctoral thesis and of his article on phase separation of fluid mixtures.)

• Sengers, Johanna Levelt. How Fluids Unmix: Discoveries by the School of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. van Wetenschappen, 2002. 302 pp.

By J. D. van der Waals

• J.D. van der Waals, Over de Continuiteit van den Gas- en Vloeistoftoestand [On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States], doctoral thesis, Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff (1873).

• J.D. van der Waals, Die Continuität des Gasförmigen und Flüssigen Zustandes, aus dem Holländischen Ubersetzt und mit Zusätzen versehen von Dr. Friedrich Roth, [The Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States, translated from the Dutch and provided with additions by Dr. Friedrich Roth], Leipzig, Barth (1881). A two-volume second edition, of 1899-1900, includes Van der Waals's theory of binary mixtures.

• J.D. van der Waals, Onderzoekingen omtrent de overeenstemmende eigenschappen der normale verzadigden-damp — en vloeistoflijnen voor de verschillende stoffen en omtrent een wijziging in den vorm dier lijnen bij mengsels [Investigations on the corresponding properties of the normal saturated vapor and liquid curves for different fluids, and about a modification in the form of these curves for mixtures], Verhandelingen Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen vol. 20, No. 5 (1880a) pp. 1-32.

• J.D. van der Waals, Over de coëfficiënten van uitzetting en van samendrukking in overeenstemmende toestanden der verschillende vloeistoffen [On the coefficients of expansion and compression in corresponding states of different liquids], Verhandelingen Koninklijke Akademie van wetenschappen vol. 20 No. 6 (1880) pp. 1-11.

• J.D. van der Waals, Molekulartheorie eines Körpers, der aus zwei verschiedenen Stoffen besteht [Molecular theory of a substance composed of two different species], Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie vol. 5 (1890) pp. 133-173.

• J.D. van der Waals, Théorie moléculaire d'une substance composée de deux matières différentes [Molecular theory of a substance composed of two different species], Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles. Société Hollandaise des Sciences vol. 24 (1891) pp. 1-56.

• J.D. van der Waals, Thermodynamische Theorie der Kapillarität unter Voraussetzung Stetiger Dichteänderung [The thermodynamic theory of capillarity under the hypothesis of a continuous variation of density], Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie vol. 13 (1894) pp. 657-725.

• J.S. Rowlinson, Translation of J.D. Van der Waals: The thermodynamic theory of capillarity under the hypothesis of a continuous variation of density, Journal of Statistical Physics vol. 20 (1979) pp. 200-244.