Peter Debye

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)

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

measure of a charge carrier's net electrostatic effect in a solution and how far it persists

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dimensionless number used in condensed matter physics to describe the attenuation of X-ray scattering or coherent neutron scattering caused by thermal motion

Model describing the departures from ideality in solutions of electrolytes and plasmas

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electrochemical effect

nonneutral layer in a plasma

non-elementary integral that arises in the Debye model of solids