In what year was the physicist after whom the van der Waals forces were named born?
Van der Waals force: In physical chemistry, the van der Waals forces, named after Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, are distance-dependent interactions between atoms or molecules. 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 work on an equation of state for gases and liquids.
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