Author: Levelt Sengers, Johanna.
Title: How fluids unmix : discoveries by the school of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes.
Description: Amsterdam : Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002. Hardcover. xvi,302 pp. ills. (History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands, 4). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : new. - This book narrates the story of pioneering scientists in the Netherlands, who reached a profound and comprehensive understanding of fluid mixture criticality and phase separation within a brief time span around the end of the nineteenth century. This achievement was the consequence of the felicitous collaboration of two Dutch physicists and Nobel prize winners, J.D. van der Waals (1837-1923) at the University of Amsterdam, and H. Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) at the University of Leiden. Between 1890 and 1906, the Dutch School reached an understanding of phase behavior and criticality of fluid mixtures that was far ahead of its time. ISBN 9789069843575.

Keywords: HISTORY OF SCIENCE, history of science