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    Peter Joseph William Debye ForMemRS (/dɪˈbaɪ/; Dutch: [dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist...
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  • debye (symbol: D) (/dɪˈbaɪ/; Dutch: [dəˈbɛiə]) is a CGS unit (a non-SI metric unit) of electric dipole moment named in honour of the physicist Peter J...
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  • In plasmas and electrolytes, the Debye length λ D {\displaystyle \lambda _{\rm {D}}} (Debye radius or Debye–Hückel screening length), is a measure of a...
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    In thermodynamics and solid-state physics, the Debye model is a method developed by Peter Debye in 1912 to estimate phonon contribution to the specific...
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  • The Debye–Hückel theory was proposed by Peter Debye and Erich Hückel as a theoretical explanation for departures from ideality in solutions of electrolytes...
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  • of Peter Debye, who came across this function (with n = 3) in 1912 when he analytically computed the heat capacity of what is now called the Debye model...
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  • The Debye sheath (also electrostatic sheath) is a layer in a plasma which has a greater density of positive ions, and hence an overall excess positive...
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  • The Debye–Waller factor (DWF), named after Peter Debye and Ivar Waller, is used in condensed matter physics to describe the attenuation of x-ray scattering...
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  • The Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society "to encourage and reward outstanding research in physical...
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    Dielectric (redirect from Debye relaxation)
    pp. 231–232, 348–349. Debye, P. (1913), Ver. Deut. Phys. Gesell. 15, 777; reprinted 1954 in collected papers of Peter J.W. Debye. Interscience, New York...
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  • where Peter Debye was teaching, and confronted Debye, telling him his theory was wrong. He impressed Debye so much that he was invited to become Debye's assistant...
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  • methanol-toluene systems have confirmed Falkenhagen's predictions made in 1929. Peter Debye Debye length Hans Falkenhagen Wien effect Glasstone, S. (2008). An Introduction...
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    while still working on his dissertation, he and his tutor, Peter Debye, developed the “Debye–Scherrer powder method”, a procedure using X-rays for the...
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    Wilkens). Doctoral and Habilitation: Karl Bechert, Hans Bethe, Peter Debye, Paul Peter Ewald, Adolf Kratzer, Wilhelm Lenz, Ludwig Waldmann, Heinrich Welker...
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  • debye or Debye in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The debye (symbol: D) is a unit of electric dipole moment named after physicist Peter J. W. Debye Debye...
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    Sommerfeld: Heisenberg, who had received the Nobel Prize in Physics; Peter Debye, who had received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936; and Richard Becker...
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  • The first theoretical treatment of electrostatic screening, due to Peter Debye and Erich Hückel, dealt with a stationary point charge embedded in a...
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    application of experimental methods to the study of diverse geologic phenomena Peter Debye (1884–1966) – awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936 "for his contributions...
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    by Walther Bothe), Wilhelm Hanle, Gerhard Hoffmann, and Georg Joos; Peter Debye was invited, but he did not attend. After this, informal work began at...
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  • Einstein's later work searching for a more complete theory. In 1910, Peter Debye derived Planck's law of black-body radiation from a relatively simple...
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  • United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978. He won the 1982 Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society, followed in 1989 by the Irving...
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  • chemist Peter Debye, whom Einstein believed to be serving the Third Reich more than he considered ethically correct. Rispens cited a memo written by Debye during...
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    but soon became an assistant to Peter Debye at Zürich. It was there that he and Debye developed their theory (the Debye–Hückel theory, in 1923) of electrolytic...
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    Medal Christian Beyel Swiss Mathematician Brigitta Danuser, Medicine Peter Debye, Dutch physicist and chemist Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist who...
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  • spherical shells, radially inhomogeneous spheres and infinite cylinders. Peter Debye has contributed to the theory in 1881.[citation needed] The theory for...
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    Fairchild Distinguished Scholar (1983); Harrison Howe Award (1983); Peter Debye Award (1986); National Medal of Science (1986); Golden Plate Award of...
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  • imposed electric field. Rotational Brownian motion was first discussed by Peter Debye, who applied Albert Einstein's theory of translational Brownian motion...
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    1934: Harold Urey 1935: Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie 1936: Peter Debye 1937: Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer 1938: Richard Kuhn 1939: Adolf Butenandt...
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    Earle K. Plyler Prize (1993), the Herbert P. Broida Prize (1995), the Peter Debye Award (1996), the Tolman Award (1997), the Robert A. Welch Award (1997)...
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    Chemistry in 1984-1985, the Centenary Prize, the Willard Gibbs Award and the Peter Debye Award in 1988, the National Medal of Science in 1989, Ohio State's William...
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