Sengers J.L. How Fluids Unmix: Discoveries by the School of Van Der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002. — 302 p.Between 1890 and 1906, pioneering scientists in the Netherlands reached an understanding of phase separation and fluid mixture criticality that was far ahead of its time. This book narrates the story of these profound discoveries, and details the collaboration between two Dutch physicists and Nobel prize winners, Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923) at the University of Amsterdam, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) at the University of Leiden.Acknowledgements
Note on ConventionsThe Equation of State of Van der Waals
The Law of Corresponding States - Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes
The Theory of Mixtures - Van der Waals
The Theory of Plaits on Surfaces - Korteweg
Mixture Experiments and Models - Kuenen and Kamerlingh Onnes
Fluid Phase Diagrams - Korteweg, Kuenen, and van Laar
Barotropic Effect and Gas-Gas Equilibria - Kamerlingh Onnes, Keesom, and Van Laar
Criticality, Capillarity, and Critical Exponents - Verschaffelt and Van der Waals
Challenges to Van der Waals-Andrews Criticality: Kamerlingh Onnes, Kuenen, and Verschaffelt
Dilute Near-Critical Mixtures - Van't Hoff, Van der Walls, Korteweg, Verschaffelt, Keesom, and Van Laar
Impact of the Dutch School
Notes of ReferencingName Index
Subject Index