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Peter Debye

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1994574&amp;oldid=2555773082" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Faraday Lectureship Prize · dated 1933
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q898268&amp;oldid=2543264869" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Debye length
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q154804&amp;oldid=2560508554" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leipzig University · from 1927
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q273263&amp;oldid=2564635879" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RWTH Aachen University · from 1901 · to 1905
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q44585&amp;oldid=2564246499" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nobel Prize in Chemistry · dated 1936
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q901281&amp;oldid=2476419087" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Debye–Hückel equation

Wikidata describes Peter Debye as Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966).

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