Peter Debye
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a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in chemistry (1936)
"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"
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Born
March 24, 1884 Maastricht, Netherlands
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Died
November 2, 1966 (aged 82) Ithaca, New York, US
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Known for
Debye model Debye relaxation Debye frequency
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Fields
Physics, Chemistry
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Alma mater
RWTH Aachen University of Munich
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Awards
Rumford Medal (1930) Faraday Lectureship Prize (1933) Lorentz Medal (1935) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1936) Willard Gibbs Award (1949) Max Planck Medal (1950) Priestley Medal (1963) National Medal of Science
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Institutions
University 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)
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Spouse(s)
Mathilde Alberer ​ ( m. 1913) ​
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Netherlands
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Children
2
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Citizenship
Netherlands / United States
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Doctoral advisor
Arnold Sommerfeld
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Doctoral students
Lars Onsager Paul Scherrer George K. Fraenkel Fritz Zwicky
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