Talk:Peter Debye

message: ALERT: Debye had some nazi preferences. Read http://www.observant.unimaas.nl/jrg26/obs19/index.htm (Dutch) 
:A Yahoo! news article says the same. Someone more knowledgeable on Mr. Debye needs to update the page.Yahoo! News article Calicore 03:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Investigations into Debye 

message: Hi Micha, 
Thanks for correcting the quote in the Debye article but according to my source the quote ends with an exclamation mark and I think that is relevant. What should we do? V8rik 16:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  exclamation mark 

message: I feel it is premature to include the allegations of Sybe Rispens. Every body is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of justice. And this hold for Debye as well. So until the allegations of Rispens are cnfirmed by independent invstigators it is premature to include that in an encyclopedia
* nobody is proven guilty of anything, the current article gives a time line of events taking place in 2006, complete with rebuttal from his son, the authenticity is confirmed by NOID as stated in the article see also press releases. suggest mediation V8rik 21:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: I can only repeat what I have said before and that is: This section does not belong in an encyclopedia. What this is about is a recent controversy, and the issue has not been settled, not in a long stretch. What is happened is that this section now represent the major portion of this article; the description of Debye's life and scientific contributions has been marginalized. I have just added a reference to a recent news article in Science that further clarifies the controversial character of all of this. I urge people to come to their senses, and reduce this section to a single sentence saying something like "recently there has been a controversy about Debye's role during the war", giving only one single reference to the Science article I just added. For the rest I would suggest to move that section to the talk page instead JdH 12:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  War years 

message: It is said that
..Because of this letter and perhaps due to long standing professional competition, Albert Einstein actively tried to prevent Debye from being appointed in the United States.[2]
The only reference is to Sybe Rispens' work. Elsewhere I see that the factuality of this rather hotly contested. If there is no direct proof for this it really has no place in an encyclopedia. At most it can be said that this is Rispens' allegation.
Either: add real proof that Einstein has actually done this or say it is merely an allegation.
Jcwf 19:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Allegations or facts?

message: I can't remember what Debye's picture looked like before, but the current one is really pixellated. Can someone decrease the size of it? I tried to but adding "|100px" to the infobox didn't do anything. Tocharianne 00:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New photo 

message: According to the article Rumford Medal and other various sources on the internet, Peter Debye obtained the Rumford Medal in 1930 but it doesn't seem to appear in the article...  Amhantar 19:06, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rumford Medal 

message: It is unacceptable to just delete material this way. the NRC article is a valid source and is an article about the report. The Volkskrant on the other hand just published an open letter. In many articles in wikipedia these sort of publications are not considered valid. User 12.77.44.158 is obviously biased and feeling in a position to defend Debye. I am not going to criticize that but it should be remembered that the  article is not a fan page, it represents the facts. On the other hand if user 12.77.44.158 is connected to Debye in any professional way then it would a decent that this user would make himself or herself known. Thanks V8rik (talk) 18:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  restored  material, deleted by user 12.77.44.158 

message: "he became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics (named then the Max-Planck-Institut)": probably this not what the author of these lines intended, because what he/she wrote means that the institute is currently called Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and in 1934 it was called Max Planck Institute. However, the reverse is true. In 1934 the name was Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. What are currently called Max Planck Institutes can be considered successors of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Society. Somebody should correct this.   Thanks Mateat (talk • contribs) 20:15, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life 

message: How was his field chemistry and how was he a physical chemist? This point is misleading. He was a physicist by training and like many other physicists of the time he applied the then-current ideas to the problems of chemistry, but not just chemistry though. 71.103.51.35 (talk) 06:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Field 

message: I suggest that the article has lost focus:  it is supposed to be about the man, it is not supposed to focus on debates that began long after his death.  A better place for the content, separate from this article should be found, and linked to.
Just because an aspect of his life might be 'controversial', doesn't mean that it deserves the overwhelming focus of the article.
—DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 06:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus 

message: I've just now readded a sentence in a footnote regarding Debye's final resting place.  The original sentence was deleted as being unverified.  Other than the fact that I've visited Debye's gravesite a few times over the past 20 years, I'm not sure how one should independently verify such a thing.  Wikipedia has many gravesites listed in many places (e.g., Rock Creek Cemetery) and listing Debye's is certainly not unusual.  --  Incidentally, Thomas Gold, the cosmologist, is buried near Debye. - Astrochemist (talk) 14:16, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final resting place 

message: The odd phrase "just 30 km away" has appeared.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.148.105.41 (talk) 12:35, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be the distance from Maastricht to Aachen.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.148.77.173 (talk) 12:44, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "just 30 km away from Rhenish Prussia." Seems to contribute nothing to the article. "Rhenish Prussia" is an obscure term for the Rhineland. Why has this geometric relationship, which appears nowhere else in the article, been singled out?  Aachen is significant enough to stand on its own. 178.39.122.125 (talk) 20:28, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd Phrase  

message: Please, this is an article on Peter Debye, not Sybe Rispens.  Large part of Rispens' accusations have been refuted, so it is absurd to concentrate so much on something that is likely untrue, and completely wrong according to Wiki guideline WP:UNDUE.  While the controversy should be noted, this is excessive and made the article completely unbalanced.  Someone please trim that section. Hzh (talk) 16:10, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excessive details on controversy section 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I think it is better to replace "the units of molecular dipole moments are termed debyes in his honor" with "the unit of the molecular dipole moment is termed Debye in his honor".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Lexicographic_conventions does not say much on this, helas, but  may be wrong.
Simon de Danser (talk) 12:02, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's also consistent with unit of measurement being singular. DMacks (talk) 12:23, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Unit

message: :This article fails the B-class criteria #1, 
:There are twelve entries in the "External links". Three seems to be an acceptable number and of course, everyone has their favorite to add for four. The problem is that none is needed for article promotion. 
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thread_title:  Article issues and classification