Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Debye, Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus. (Berlin University, Berlin, Germany and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1936 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