Was Debye a Nazi sympathizer and/or collaborator (C&EN, March 6, page 19)? Did he hold anti-Semitic views? Was he willing to accommodate the views of the Nazi regime? These are some of the questions ...
Peter Debye, the Dutch winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry whose reputation was sullied in 2006 by allegations that he was a Nazi sympathizer, could in fact have been an anti-Nazi informer to ...