2 Quotes & Sayings By Peter Debye

Peter Debye was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at Utrecht University and received his PhD at Leiden University in 1922. He was one of the original group of the National Research Council of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen), which was formally established in 1919. From 1946 to 1970 he served as President of this organization; he also was Director-General of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (KNVC) from 1952 to 1954, and President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) from 1957 to 1965.