The Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry is awarded annually by the

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"to encourage and reward outstanding research in

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". The award is named after

Peter Debye Peter Joseph William Debye (; ; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemistry, physical chemist, and List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Biography Early life Born Petr ...

and granted without regard to age or nationality.

Recipients

*2020

Laura Gagliardi Laura Gagliardi (born 6 April 1968 in Bologna) is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist and Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She is known for her work on the ...

*2019 Daniel M. Neumark *2018 *2017 *2016

Mark A. Ratner Mark A. Ratner (born December 8, 1942) is an American chemist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University whose work focuses on the interplay between molecular structure and molecular properties. He is widely credited as the "father of mo ...

*2015 Xiaoliang Sunney Xie *2014 Henry F. Schaefer III *2013

William E. Moerner William Esco Moerner (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a ...

*2012 David Chandler *2011 Louis E. Brus *2010 George Schatz *2009 Richard J. Saykally *2008

Michael L. Klein Michael Lawrence Klein (born March 13, 1940, in London, England) is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and director of the Institute for Computational Molecular Science in the college of science and technology at Temple University in Philad ...

*2007 John T. Yates, Jr. *2006 Donald Truhlar *2005 Stephen Leone *2004 William Carl Lineberger *2003 William H. Miller *2002 Giacinto Scoles *2001 John Ross *2000 Peter G. Wolynes *1999 Jesse L. Beauchamp *1998 Graham R. Fleming *1997 Robin M. Hochstrasser *1996

Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry ...

*1995 John C. Tully *1994 William A. Klemperer *1993 F. Sherwood Rowland *1992

Frank H. Stillinger Frank H. Stillinger (born August 15, 1934
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108 (51), 19571 -19573, 2004. 10.1021/jp0405310 S10 ...

*1991

Richard N. Zare Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physic ...

*1990 Harden M. McConnell *1989 Gabor A. Somorjai *1988 Rudolph A. Marcus *1987

Harry G. Drickamer Harry George Drickamer (November 19, 1918 – May 6, 2002), born Harold George Weidenthal, was a pioneer experimentalist in high-pressure studies of condensed matter. His work generally concerned understanding the electronic properties of matter ...

*1986 Yuan T. Lee *1985 Stuart A. Rice *1984 B. Seymour Rabinovitch *1983 George C. Pimentel *1982 Peter M. Rentzepis *1981 Richard B. Bernstein *1976 Robert W. Zwanzig *1975

Herbert S. Gutowsky Herbert Sander Gutowsky (November 8, 1919 – January 13, 2000) was an American chemist who was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Gutowsky was the first to apply nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods ...

*1974

Walter H. Stockmayer Walter Hugo Stockmayer (April 7, 1914 in Rutherford, New Jersey – May 9, 2004 in Norwich, Vermont) was an internationally known chemist and university teacher. A former member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was recognized as one of the ...

*1973 William N. Lipscomb, Jr. *1972

Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr. Dr. Clyde Allen Hutchison Jr. (May 5, 1913 – August 29, 2005) was an American chemist notable for his research in magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Hutchison was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a chairman and professor of ...

*1971 Norman Davidson *1970 *1969 Paul J. Flory *1968 George B. Kistiakowsky *1967 Joseph E. Mayer *1966

Joseph O. Hirschfelder Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder (May 27, 1911 – March 30, 1990) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project and in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

*1965

Lars Onsager Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in C ...

*1964 Henry Eyring *1963 Robert S. Mulliken *1962 E. Bright Wilson, Jr.

References

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Recipients

See also

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