JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE PETER DEBYE AWARD IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
(26% of recipients)
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Listed below are recipients of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry who were, or are, Jewish.  The Debye Award recognizes outstanding research in physical chemistry and is one of the American Chemical Society's most prestigious awards.
  • Joseph Hirschfelder (1966)
  • Norman Davidson (1971)
  • Richard Bernstein (1981)
  • B. S. Rabinovitch (1984)
  • Stuart Rice (1985)
  • Rudolph Marcus (1988)
  • Gabor Somorjai 1 (1989)
  • Richard Zare (1991)
  • William Klemperer (1994)
  • John Ross 2 (2001)
  • Michael Klein (2008)
  • David Chandler (2012)

NOTES
1. See story by Leslie Katz entitled "Chemist, Shoah survivor nets Wolf Prize" in The  Jewish News Weekly (formerly The JEWISH BULLETIN) of Northern California, 30 January, 1998:http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/7488/chemist-shoah-survivor-nets-wolf-prize.
2. See http://news.stanford.edu/pr/00/0002013RossMedal.html.


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