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  • We had a talk last year from a historian of science about the Peter Debye thing, and Einstein said some remarkably catty things about Debye to the FBI at one point.

    The Cult of Genius Julianne 2007

  • Peter Debye, the Dutchman who headed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, arranged her flight into Holland from where she went on to Stockholm.

    Lise Meitner's Genius Smith, Mark E. 1994

  • In the depths of Kroch library also sits the gold medal awarded to chemistry professor Peter Debye in 1936.

    Stories from The Sun 2009

  • James Franck, Gustav Hertz, Erwin Schrödinger, Peter Debye” and others (Hoffmann 1998, 1).

    Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008

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