Dutch Universities Split Over Nobel Laureate's Rehabilitation

摘要

Allegations that the late Dutch physicist Peter Debye was cozy with the Nazis before and during World War II have produced a split decision among schools who once honored him. Fol-lowing the advice of an independent commit-tee, Utrecht University last week exonerated the Nobelist by restoring the name of its Debye Institute for NanoMaterials Science. But Maastricht University, in Debye's home-town, rejected the advice and removed his name from a scientific prize permanently.