C&EN: Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
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Peter Debye
Peter Joseph William Debye was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
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science · Dutch-American physical chemist (1884–1966) · chemist · physicist · theoretical physicist · scientist · engineer · crystallographer · university teacher · plasma physicist · also Peter Debye, Peter Joseph William Debye, Peter J. W. Debye, Debye
Born 24 March 1884 · Died 2 November 1966 · Q103835
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2017· 1 entry
C&EN: Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry: Bruce J. Berne
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2006· 1 entry
At age 89 recollects that his father was completely apolitical and that in the privacy of their home politics were never discussed
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1966· 1 entry
Died 1966-11-02.
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1965· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1965).
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Awarded Polymer Physics Prize (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Won Priestley Medal (1963).
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1961· 1 entry
Won William H. Nichols Medal (1961).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry (1957).
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Leopold II (1956).
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1950· 2 entries
Won Max Planck Medal (1950).
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Received the Max Planck medal of the DPG, nobody objected, not even the known opponent of the national socialists Max von Laue, who would have been in a position to object
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1949).
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1940· 1 entry
Won Mendel Medal (1940).
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1939· 1 entry
Debye traveled to the United States to deliver the Baker Lectures at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
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1938· 1 entry
Debye wrote in his capacity as chairman of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) to all the members of the DPG:
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1937· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1937).
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1936· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1936).
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– elected member of the American Philosophical Society
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1935· 1 entry
Won Lorentz Medal (1935).
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1933· 2 entries
Awarded Faraday Lectureship Prize (1933).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1933).
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1930· 2 entries
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1930).
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Won Rumford Medal (1930).
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1926· 1 entry
By Lars Onsager, the theory is still regarded as a major forward step in our understanding of electrolytic solutions
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1923· 2 entries
Together with his assistant Erich Hückel, he developed an improvement of Svante Arrhenius' theory of electrical conductivity in electrolyte solutions
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Debye developed a theory to explain the Compton effect, the shifting of the frequency of X-rays when they interact with electrons
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1913· 2 entries
Debye married Mathilde Alberer
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Extended Niels Bohr's theory of atomic structure, introducing elliptical orbits, a concept also introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld
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1912· 3 entries
Developing equations relating dipole moments to temperature and dielectric constant
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To Göttingen in 1913, to ETH Zurich in 1920, to University of Leipzig in 1927, and in 1934 to Berlin, where, succeeding Einstein, he became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics (now named the Max-Planck-I
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Extended Albert Einstein's theory of specific heat to lower temperatures by including contributions from low-frequency phonons
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1911· 1 entry
When Albert Einstein took an appointment as a professor at Prague, Bohemia, Debye took his old professorship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
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1910· 1 entry
Derived the Planck radiation formula using a method which Max Planck agreed was simpler than his own
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1906· 2 entries
Sommerfeld received an appointment at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bavaria, and took Debye with him as his assistant
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Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1906).
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1905· 2 entries
Studied at RWTH Aachen University (1901–1905).
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Completed his first degree in electrical engineering
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-03-24.
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