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De·bye  (d-b), Peter Joseph Wilhelm 1884-1966.
Dutch-born American physicist. He won a 1936 Nobel Prize for his investigations on dipole movements and on diffraction of x-rays and electrons in gases.
Debye (Dutch) [deˈbɛiə]
n
(Biographies / Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm (1884-1966) M, Dutch, SCIENCE: chemist, SCIENCE: physicist) Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884-1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments


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Debye (1884-1966), American, who, with a rich background of successful work by him on the properties of matter and the structure of molecules, made, in his later career, important contributions to the understanding of the molecules of synthetic rubber and of polymers generally, including the determination by light-scattering of chain dimensions, molecular weight and intermolecular forces.
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