[Van der Waals]

We should get together sometime and have a cold one:

I'm buying.

[bvw]

Van der Waals's dissertation had some flaws in it -- his equations work, but that may be just spaghetti against the wall. At least that's what my electro-magnetism professor used to say. Not the spagghetti -- that's my paraphrase . Just that the lucky results were pulled like a rabbit from a hat of a bad theoretical development.