Peter Debye

Peter Joseph William Debye ForMemRS (/dɛˈb/; Dutch: [dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

Peter Debye
Debye in 1912
Born(1884-03-24)March 24, 1884
Maastricht, Netherlands
DiedNovember 2, 1966(1966-11-02) (aged 82)
CitizenshipNetherlands / United States
Alma materRWTH Aachen
University of Munich
Known forDebye model
Debye relaxation
Debye frequency
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
FieldsPhysics, Chemistry
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
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