Peter Debye
Peter Debye | |
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 Debye in 1912 | |
| Born | Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije March 24, 1884 Maastricht, Netherlands |
| Died | November 2, 1966 (aged 82) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
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| Education | RWTH Aachen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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| Spouse |
Mathilde Alberer (m. 1913) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Rumford 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) |
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| Workplaces | University of Zurich (1911–12) University of Utrecht (1912–14) University of Göttingen (1914–20) ETH Zurich (1920–27) Leipzig University (1927–34) University of Berlin (1934–39) Cornell University (1940–50) |
| Arnold Sommerfeld | |
Doctoral students | Lars Onsager Paul Scherrer George K. Fraenkel Fritz Zwicky Luise Lange |
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Peter Joseph William Debye (/dɪˈbaɪ/ dib-EYE; born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije, Dutch: [ˈpeːtrʏz dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.