Peter Debye Ph.D.
Peter Debye Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936
National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1966
Drawing: Newton Llorente
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
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”
Biography
Nat’l Medal, Science
Biography
A Biographical Memoir by J.W. Williams. National Academy of Sciences. Bio 30 pages; total 48 pages.