Peter Debye Quotes

Peter Joseph William Debye was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. March 1884 – 2. November 1966
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Peter Debye Quotes

“Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.”

Inaugural lecture for his professorship of mathematical physics at the University of Utrecht (1913), as quoted by Davies, Mansel. Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye: 1884-1966. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, Vol. 16 (1970).

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