Peter debye
[de-bahy] /dɛˈbaɪ/
noun
1.
Peter Joseph Wilhelm
[pey-tuh r yoh-sef vil-helm] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈyoʊ sɛf ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.
/Dutch deˈbɛiə/
noun
1.
Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884–1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments
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