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