Tilly van der Made — (born January 18, 1938 in Leiden, Zuid Holland) is a retired female middle distance runner from the Netherlands, who was born as Mathilda Catrina van der Zwaard. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1964 (Tokyo) and… … Wikipedia
Van der Pauw method — The van der Pauw Method is a commonly used technique to measure the sheet resistance of a material. The Van der Pauw method is often used to measure the Hall effect, which characterises a sample of semiconductor material and can be successfully… … Wikipedia
Van der Valk — Infobox television show name = Van der Valk country=United Kingdom format = Police procedural/Drama picture format = runtime = 60min (1972 77) 120min (1991 92) creator = Nicolas Freeling channel = ITV first aired = 13 September, 1972 (UK) last… … Wikipedia
Van der Waals radius — The van der Waals radius, r sub|w, of an atom is the radius of an imaginary hard sphere which can be used to model the atom for many purposes. It is named after Johannes Diderik van der Waals, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics, as he was… … Wikipedia
Van der Waals force — In physical chemistry, the van der Waals force (or van der Waals interaction), named after Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, is the sum of the attractive or repulsive forces between molecules (or between parts of the same molecule)… … Wikipedia
Van der Graaf Generator — Infobox musical artist Name = Van der Graaf Generator Img capt = Img size = Background = group or band Origin = Manchester, England Genre = Progressive rock Years active = 1967 ndash;1972, 1975 ndash;1978, 2005 ndash;present Label = Mercury… … Wikipedia
Van Der Straaten — This interesting and unusual surname is of Dutch origin, and is a topographical name for a dweller by the street . The derivation of the name is the Dutch van der , of the, from, and straat, straten , street, identical with the Olde English pre… … Surnames reference
Van der Grinten projection — The van der Grinten projection is neither equal area nor conformal. It projects the entire Earth into a circle, though the polar regions are subject to extreme distortion. The projection was the first of four proposed by Alphons J. van der… … Wikipedia
van der Waals, Johannes Diederik — born Nov. 23, 1837, Leiden, Neth. died March 9, 1923, Amsterdam Dutch physicist. As professor at the University of Amsterdam (1877–1907), he extended the classical ideal gas law (see gas laws) to describe the behaviour of real gases, deriving the … Universalium
Steven van der Hagen — (1563–1621) was the first admiral of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He made three visits to the East Indies, spending six years in all there. He was appointed to the Raad van Indië. Van der Hagen protested against the harsh administration of … Wikipedia
