Peter Debye Award (physical chemistry)

Jewish recipients of the Peter Debye Award (physical chemistry) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 29% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

29%of all recipients are Jewish

17 documented recipients

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Joseph Hirschfelder1975

Manhattan Project physicist; founder of theoretical chemistry; National Medal of Science (1975)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science

Norman Davidson1916

Chemist and molecular biologist who advanced nucleic acid hybridization methods

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

Richard Bernstein1923

Physical chemist, pioneer of molecular reaction dynamics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

B. S. Rabinovitch1919

Physical chemist known for unimolecular reaction kinetics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Stuart Rice1932

Physical chemist known for the statistical mechanics of liquids

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Rudolph Marcus1923

Chemist awarded the Nobel Prize for the theory of electron transfer in chemical systems

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

Gabor Somorjai1935

Physical chemist, pioneer of surface science and heterogeneous catalysis

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Richard Zare1939

Physical chemist known for laser chemistry and analytical spectroscopy

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

William Klemperer1927

Physical chemist known for molecular spectroscopy and interstellar chemistry

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

John Ross1926

Physical chemist known for chemical kinetics and nonlinear dynamics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Michael Klein1940

Computational chemist known for molecular simulation of condensed matter

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

David Chandler1944

Theoretical chemist known for statistical mechanics of liquids

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Mark Ratner1942

Theoretical chemist and a father of molecular electronics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Bruce Berne1940

Theoretical chemist known for molecular dynamics and statistical mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Daniel Neumark1955

Physical chemist known for transition-state spectroscopy

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Michael Fayer1947

Physical chemist known for ultrafast infrared spectroscopy

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

Sharon Glotzer1966

Computational scientist known for nanoparticle self-assembly

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry