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Peter Debye

Peter Debye
Debye in 1912
Born
Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije

(1884-03-24)March 24, 1884
Maastricht, Netherlands
DiedNovember 2, 1966(1966-11-02) (aged 82)
Citizenship
  • Netherlands
  • United States
Alma materRWTH Aachen
University of Munich
Known for
Spouse
Mathilde Alberer
(m. 1913)
Children2
AwardsRumford Medal (1930)
Faraday Lectureship Prize (1933)
Lorentz Medal (1935)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1936)
Willard Gibbs Award (1949)
Max Planck Medal (1950)
William H. Nichols Medal (1961)
Priestley Medal (1963)
National Medal of Science (1965)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Zurich (1911–12)
University of Utrecht (1912–14)
University of Göttingen (1914–20)
ETH Zurich (1920–27)
University of Leipzig (1927–34)
University of Berlin (1934–39)
Cornell University (1940–50)
Doctoral advisorArnold Sommerfeld
Doctoral studentsLars Onsager
Paul Scherrer
George K. Fraenkel
Fritz Zwicky
Signature

Peter Joseph William Debye ForMemRS[1] (/dɪˈb/ dib-EYE;[2] born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije,[a] Dutch: [ˈpeːtrʏz dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966)[3][4] was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

  1. ^ Davies, M. (1970). "Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye. 1884–1966". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 16: 175–232. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1970.0007.
  2. ^ Random House Dictionary, Random House, 2013: "Debye".
  3. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "Peter Debye | American physical chemist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved December 26, 2021.


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