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Peter Debye
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
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The debye ( , ; symbol: D) is a CGS unit (a non-SI metric unit) of electric dipole moment named in honour of the physicist Peter J. W. Debye. Likely the earliest recommendation for the Debye as a unit was in the Physikalisch-chemisches Taschenbuch (physical chemistry handbook) written by Carl Drucker and Erich Proskauer in early 1932.
It is defined as statcoulomb-centimetres. Historically the debye was defined as the dipole moment resulting from two charges of opposite sign but an equal magnitude of 10−10 statcoulomb (generally called e.s.u. (electrostatic unit) in older scienti
Debye length
measure of a charge carrier's net electrostatic effect in a solution and how far it persists
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Debye-Waller factor
dimensionless number used in condensed matter physics to describe the attenuation of X-ray scattering or coherent neutron scattering caused by thermal motion
Debye–Hückel theory
Model describing the departures from ideality in solutions of electrolytes and plasmas
Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
American annual award in physical chemistry
Debye–Falkenhagen effect
electrochemical effect
Debye sheath
nonneutral layer in a plasma
Debye function
non-elementary integral that arises in the Debye model of solids