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Peter Debye
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Peter Debye

1884 – 1966 · aged 82

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)

Born
24 Mar 1884 · Maastricht
Died
2 Nov 1966 · Ithaca
Part ofNetherlands9 CE – todayKingdom of the Netherlands1772 – todayCatholicism305 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 24 Mar 1884BornBorn in Maastricht
  2. 1930AwardGuthrie Lecture
  3. 1930AwardRumford Medal
  4. 1933AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  5. 1933AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
  6. 1935AwardLorentz Medal
  7. 1936AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  8. 1937AwardFranklin Medal
  9. 1940AwardMendel Medal
  10. 1949AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  11. 1950AwardMax Planck Medal
  12. 1956AwardCommander of the Order of Leopold II
  13. 1957AwardACS Award in Colloid Chemistry
  14. 2 Nov 1966DiedDied in Ithaca

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1884 – 1966).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution

Biography

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.

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