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Peter Debye

Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)

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Born
March 24, 1884
Died
November 2, 1966
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1884

About Peter Debye

Peter Joseph William Debye was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. He published his first paper, a mathematically elegant solution of a problem involving eddy currents, in 1907. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1935. While in Berlin as an assistant to Arnold Sommerfeld, Debye became acquainted with Mathilde Alberer.

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Peter Debye timeline

  1. He published his first paper, a mathematically elegant solution of a problem involving eddy currents, in 1907.
  2. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1935.

The world when Peter Debye was born

Peter Debye was born in 1884. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

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  • Technology milestoneFirst roller coaster opens at Coney Island
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  • World population~1.44B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population53.7M

1884 versus 2026

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Measure18842026
Population53.7M341 million

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