Van der Waals

Van der Waals or Van der Waal may refer to:

People

• Fransje van der Waals (born 1950), Dutch medical physician
• Grace VanderWaal (born 2004), American singer-songwriter
• Henk van der Waal (born 1960), Dutch poet
• Joan van der Waals (1920–2022), Dutch physicist
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923), Dutch physicist
• Anton van der Waals (1912–1950), Dutch spy, V-mann in German service during World War II (see Dutch resistance)

Physics

There are a series of subjects named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals:

• Van der Waals force
• Van der Waals equation
• Van der Waals molecule
• Van der Waals radius
• Van der Waals surface

Other uses

• Van der Waals (crater), named after the physicist
• Mona Vanderwaal, Pretty Little Liars character

See also

• Van der Wal, surname