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Also Known As Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije • Peter Joseph William Debye
Born March 24, 1884 • Maastricht • Netherlands
Died November 2, 1966 (aged 82) • Ithaca • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1936)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • electric dipole moment
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician and crystallographer
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
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Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Ahmed Zewail, wearing a suit and purple tie, speaks at a podium against a dark background at the UNESCO and L'Oreal Awards for Women and Science.
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
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William Francis Giauque
American chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
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Max von Laue
German physicist
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Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist

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