Most of Peter Debye's professional work involved the application of physical laws to the structure and behavior of molecules. In the 1910s, for example, he determined the dipole moments of many molecules, obtaining results that allowed him to calculate...

Peter Debye is perhaps best known for his contribution to the theory of electrolytic dissociation, the Debye-Hückel theory, announced in 1923. Most of Peter Debye's professional work involved the application of physical laws to the structure and...

The main contribution of the Dutch-born American physical chemist Peter Joseph William Debye (1884-1966) was the development of methods based on induced dipole moments and X-ray diffraction for the investigation of molecular structures. Peter Debye was...

At the time of his death in 1966, Peter Debye was internationally renowned for his work on molecular structure, especially dipole moments (the interaction of a collection of charged particles with an electrical field) and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases....

Historians investigating the life of a Dutch Nobel chemistry laureate who worked in Germany during Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime found the scientist complied with anti-Jewish dictates while sometimes helping Jewish colleagues.Peter Debye, who won the Nobel in 1936, was posthumously stripped of honors by two...