Peter Debye

Peter Debye (born March 24, 1884, Maastricht, Netherlands—died November 2, 1966, Ithaca, New York, U.S.) was a physical chemist whose investigations of dipole moments, X-rays, and light scattering in gases brought him the 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. After receiving a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich (1908), Debye taught physics at the universities of Zürich, Utrecht, Göttingen, and Leipzig before becoming director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics at Berlin (1935)....