Peter Joseph William Debye was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936, announced November 12, 1936. Peter Debye, “for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases”. Peter Debye: born 1884, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).