# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:27:40.947Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije was born in the Netherlands on March 24, 1884, into a world still mapping the architecture of matter. He trained as a physicist but spent his career dismantling the wall between physics and chemistry, asking questions neither field alone could answer. The work earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a crossover honor that captured exactly where he lived intellectually. He later became an American citizen and continued working until his death on November 2, 1966, having spent eight decades watching science explain itself.