The article reports that two universities in the Netherlands have distanced themselves from Dutch-born Nobel laureate Peter Debye in light of new scrutiny about his actions in Nazi Germany, which were brought about by the publication of the book Einsten in the Netherlands by Sybe Rispens, as of May 2006. Utrecht University has stripped Debye's name from its Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials and Interfaces, and Maastricht University will no longer award an international prize for mid-career physicists and chemists unless the sponsoring foundation renames it