Peter Debye

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The following paper discusses what Peter Debye was awarded the Nobel Prize for and lists the other awards he received throughout his lifetime. This paper also looks at Debye's early modification of a theory belonging to Einstein as well as contributions to chemistry.

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"Peter Debye (1884-1966) was awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936 for what the Nobel e-museum describes as his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases.(Nobel e-museum) He has a chemical unit of measure named for him debye units (D) , which measures the dipole moment for polar molecules. (Chang, 308) Aside from The Nobel Prize in 1936, he received Honorary Doctorates from & Brussels and Liege; Oxford; Sofia; Maniz; Technische Hochschule, Aachen; Eidgenosissche Technische Hochschule, Switzerland; Harvard; St. Lawrence; Colgate; Notre Dame; Holy Cross; Brooklyn Polytechnic; Boston College, Providence College."

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