Peter Debye Ph.D.
Peter Debye Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936
National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1966
Name: Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
Birth: 24 March 1884, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Death: 2 November 1966, Ithaca, NY, USA
Institution: Berlin University, Berlin, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik, Berlin, Germany
Award: “for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases”
Subject: physical chemistry, structural chemistry
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Biography
Nat’l Medal, Science
The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Affiliation: Cornell University Ithaca,New York USA
Gender: Male
Year Deceased: 1966
Award Discipline: Physical Sciences
Award Year: 1965
Citation: “For sustained contributions of major concepts of modern chemistry and especially for the application of physical methods to the understanding of large molecules and their interaction in solution.”
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966.