Cornell scientists, past and present, are anything but ordinary. The university prides itself in hiring some of the most intelligent people in the world, but its long list of innovative, brilliant, ...

Fig. 1. The dielectric response models for conventional dielectric materials and for metamaterials. For conventional dielectric materials, there are three types of polarization models: Drude model for ...

Higher electric fields lower the temperature for the onset of flash. We explore the question “what can be the lowest temperature for initiating flash?”. Constant heating rate experiments at increasing ...

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 ...

Congratulations to the past recipients of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, which encourages and rewards outstanding research in physical chemistry.