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Also Known As Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije • Peter Joseph William Debye
Born March 24, 1884 • Maastricht • Netherlands
Died November 2, 1966 (aged 82) • Ithaca • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1936)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • electric dipole moment
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician and crystallographer
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
William Francis Giauque
American chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Max von Laue
German physicist
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist

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