Johannes Diderik van der Waals

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Johannes Diderik van der Waals in Leiden in front of the helium-'liquefactor', 1908

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (left) and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (right) in front of the helium-'liquefactor', Leiden 1908.

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