The article reports that two of the leading universities in the Netherlands have disassociated themselves from the Dutch-born Nobel laureate, Peter J.W. Debye, because of evidence, presented in a new book, that the renowned scientist may have been a Nazi sympathizer. Last month Utrecht University stripped the chemist's name from the Debye Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials and Interfaces, and the University of Maastricht has said that it will no longer affiliate itself with a science prize named for Debye. Before renouncing their connections with the scientist, the universities consulted jointly with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, in Amsterdam, an organization established soon after the German occupation of the Netherlands ended in 1945