Debye << deh BY >>, Peter Joseph William (1884-1966), a Dutch-born American physicist and chemist, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in chemistry for studies of the physical properties of molecules. He was born in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on March 24, 1884. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich in 1908. Debye was a pioneer in the field of chemical physics. He came to the United States in 1940. Debye died on Nov. 2, 1966.
