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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

PETER J. W. DEBYE

Title: Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Affiliation:   Cornell University
    Ithaca, New YorkUSA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   1966
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Award Discipline:   Physical Sciences
Award Year:   1965
Citation:   "For sustained contributions of major concepts of modern chemistry and especially for the application of physical methods to the understanding of large molecules and their interaction in solution."
    Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966.
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Nobel Laureate:   Chemistry, 1936

 

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