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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936

"for 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"
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
the Netherlands
Berlin University; Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik
Berlin, Germany
b. 1884
d. 1966
 
 
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