Peter Debye
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1936for 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
- Citizenship
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Kingdom of the Netherlands 
United States - Languages
- English, Dutch, German
- date of birth
- 3/24/1884
- place of birth
- Maastricht
- date of death
- 11/2/1966
- place of death
- Ithaca
- Lived
- 82 years
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- member of
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- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- start time: 1959
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1947
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1924
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
- Indian National Science Academy
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- start time: 10/1/1935
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- end time: 10/1/1935
- start time: 2/27/1928
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/25/1933
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- start time: 1932
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1936
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1927
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- start time: 1916
- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- educated at
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- RWTH Aachen University
- start time: 1901
- end time: 1905
- ETH Zurich
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- start time: 1906
- RWTH Aachen University
- employer
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- University of Zurich
- start time: 1920
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- start time: 1934
- Cornell University
- start time: 1940
- Leipzig University
- start time: 1927
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- start time: 1906
- Utrecht University
- start time: 2/3/1912
- end time: 1914
- ETH Zurich
- start time: 1911
- University of Göttingen
- start time: 1914
- University of Zurich
- field of work
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- theoretical chemistry
- X-ray
- physics
- physical chemistry
- doctoral student
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- Hans Falkenhagen
- Hans Falkenhagen
- Alexander Naumann
- Emil Funk
- Michael Ignatius Maria van Everdingen
- Willy Hardmeier
- Willem Cornelis Mandersloot
- Auguston Budo
- Karl Schatz
- Rudolf Hermann
- Horst Müller
- Rudolf Gast
- Hildegard Geest
- Hans Triebel
- Hermann Kurzweg
- Gerhard Klingler
- Heinz Schöpel
- Hans-Heinrich Rust
- Willem van der Grinten
- Hans-Christoph Wohlrab
- Theodor Burbach
- Lothar Hahn
- Friedrich Biedermann
- Werner Linke
- Otto Ernst Mittelstaedt
- Gerhard Martin
- Wilhelm Erfurth
- Rudolf Peierls
- Hertha Sponer
- Raymund Sänger
- Felix Bloch
- Lars Onsager
- Fritz Zwicky
- Paul Scherrer
- Ludwig Bewilogua
- Wiktor Kemula
- Franz Wever
- occupation
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- engineer
- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- crystallographer
- theoretical physicist
- scientist
- plasma physicist
- notable work
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- Debye length
- Debye–Hückel equation
- work location
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- Leipzig