biography
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Debye, Peter (Joseph William)
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originally Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije
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pronunciation:
[duhbiy]
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| lived:
| (1884–1966)
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| biography:
| Physicist and chemist, born in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He held a series of teaching posts at Swiss, Dutch, and German universities while he pursued his research in physical chemistry. In 1912–13 he introduced the concept of the molecular electric dipole moment, which led to new understandings of ionization and molecular structure, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1936). He emigrated to the USA (1940) and headed the chemistry department at Cornell University (1940–50), where he concentrated on research in the light-scattering process.. |
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