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Peter Debye

1884 - 1966

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Peter Joseph William Debye ( dib-EYE; born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije, Dutch: [ˈpeːtrʏz dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Debye is the 104th most popular physicist (up from 112th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 47th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Physicist.

Peter Debye is most famous for his work in the field of chemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936 for his work in the field of electrolytic dissociation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Debye ranks 104 out of 851. Before him are Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Eugene Wigner, Donald A. Glaser, Aage Bohr, and Thomas Young. After him are Mikhail Lomonosov, Georges Lemaître, Hannes Alfvén, Dennis Gabor, Clinton Davisson, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Peter Debye ranks 10. Before him are Hideki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Bronisław Malinowski, and Édouard Daladier. After him are Max Brod, Walther von Reichenau, Claude Auchinleck, Anton Drexler, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Theodor Heuss. Among people deceased in 1966, Peter Debye ranks 6. Before him are Walt Disney, André Breton, Buster Keaton, Anna Akhmatova, and Margaret Sanger. After him are Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Peter Debye ranks 35 out of 1,646. Before him are Juliana of the Netherlands (1909), Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165), André Rieu (1949), Christiaan Eijkman (1858), Louis van Gaal (1951), and Jacob van Ruisdael (1628). After him are Leo Beenhakker (1942), William I of the Netherlands (1772), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Guus Hiddink (1946), Rutger Hauer (1944), and Marco van Basten (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Peter Debye ranks 7. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Pieter Zeeman (1865), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837). After him are Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), and Jan Ingenhousz (1730).

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