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)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics, Chemistry
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)
Doctoral advisor
Arnold Sommerfeld
Doctoral students
Lars Onsager Paul Scherrer George K. Fraenkel Fritz Zwicky
Signature
Peter Joseph William DebyeForMemRS[1] (/dɛˈbaɪ/;[2]Dutch:[dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966)[3][4] was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
^Davies, M. (1970). "Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye. 1884–1966". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 16: 175–232. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1970.0007.
^Random House Dictionary, Random House, 2013: "Debye".
^"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
^"Peter Debye | American physical chemist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
Peter Joseph William Debye ForMemRS (/dɛˈbaɪ/; Dutch: [dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist...
debye (symbol: D) (/dɛˈbaɪ/; Dutch: [dəˈbɛiə]) is a CGS unit (a non-SI metric unit) of electric dipole moment named in honour of the physicist Peter J...
In plasmas and electrolytes, the Debye length λ D {\displaystyle \lambda _{\rm {D}}} (Debye radius or Debye–Hückel screening length), is a measure of a...
In thermodynamics and solid-state physics, the Debye model is a method developed by PeterDebye in 1912 to estimate phonon contribution to the specific...
of PeterDebye, who came across this function (with n = 3) in 1912 when he analytically computed the heat capacity of what is now called the Debye model...
The Debye sheath (also electrostatic sheath) is a layer in a plasma which has a greater density of positive ions, and hence an overall excess positive...
pp. 231–232, 348–349. Debye, P. (1913), Ver. Deut. Phys. Gesell. 15, 777; reprinted 1954 in collected papers of Peter J.W. Debye. Interscience, New York...
where PeterDebye was teaching, and confronted Debye, telling him his theory was wrong. He impressed Debye so much that he was invited to become Debye's assistant...
while still working on his dissertation, he and his tutor, PeterDebye, developed the “Debye–Scherrer powder method”, a procedure using X-rays for the...
The PeterDebye Award in Physical Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society "to encourage and reward outstanding research in physical...
Sommerfeld: Heisenberg, who had received the Nobel Prize in Physics; PeterDebye, who had received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936; and Richard Becker...
Medal Christian Beyel Swiss Mathematician Brigitta Danuser, Medicine PeterDebye, Dutch physicist and chemist Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist who...
Wilkens). Doctoral and Habilitation: Karl Bechert, Hans Bethe, PeterDebye, Paul Peter Ewald, Adolf Kratzer, Wilhelm Lenz, Ludwig Waldmann, Heinrich Welker...
by Walther Bothe), Wilhelm Hanle, Gerhard Hoffmann, and Georg Joos; PeterDebye was invited, but he did not attend. After this, informal work began at...
Einstein's later work searching for a more complete theory. In 1910, PeterDebye derived Planck's law of black-body radiation from a relatively simple...
application of experimental methods to the study of diverse geologic phenomena PeterDebye (1884–1966) – awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936 "for his contributions...
1934: Harold Urey 1935: Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie 1936: PeterDebye 1937: Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer 1938: Richard Kuhn 1939: Adolf Butenandt...
Earle K. Plyler Prize (1993), the Herbert P. Broida Prize (1995), the PeterDebye Award (1996), the Tolman Award (1997), the Robert A. Welch Award (1997)...
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