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.”

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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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