Peter Debye - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • 1930 – Rumford Medal for work relating to specific heats and X-ray spectroscopy
  • 1937 – Franklin Medal from The Franklin Institute.
  • 1936 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (entry at nobelprize.org) "for his contributions to the study of molecular structure," primarily referring to his work on dipole moments and X-ray diffraction
  • 1963 – Priestley Medal
  • 1965 – National Medal of Science

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