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Professor Debye is married to Mathilde Alberer and has a son
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The electric field of a charge falls off like where is the so-called Debye screening length of the plasma
Succumbing to LaTeX Sean 2008
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The electric field of a charge falls off like where is the so-called Debye screening length of the plasma
Succumbing to LaTeX Sean 2008
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Debye did not study crystals, however, but gases, which give less distinct diffraction patterns.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Now the solar wind can be quite dynamic – meaning it can change a lot – but the Debye length in any part of it will rarely, if ever, be greater than a few tens of meters.
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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Chuck La Monica: The thing which puts the kibosh on electromagnetic communication across large interstellar distances is the Debye length.
If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET | Universe Today 2010
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The solar wind is a plasma, and any electric field there is in it will not be felt much more than a few Debye lengths' away basically, because electrons and ions are free to move in a plasma, they screen charges – the source of electric fields – quite effectively; the Debye length is about as far as an electric field can penetrate.
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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The Debye screening length here clearly must has a frequency dependency, something I am not knowledgable of.
Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…. Julianne 2008
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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
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The oldest theories for the Compton effect were given by Compton, and 'Debijes' (Debye) and
The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archives 1999
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