Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
Peter J. W. Debye papers, 1901-1906 and 1918-1945.
Includes 27 lecture notebooks (with marginal notes), 1901-1906. Technical College Aachen. The correspondence, 1918-1945, is primarily from the period 1935-1939. Other topics include: German Bunsen Society, Germany Physics Society, institutional affairs in Leipzig during the time Debye organized the influential "Leipziger Wochen" where, around Debye, Werner Heisenberg and Friedrich Hund, many of the pioneers of solid state research met regularly. Correspondents: Ludwig Bewilogua, Max Bodenstein, William Lawrence Bragg, Louis de Broglie, Arthur H. Compton, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Arnold Eucken, Paul Eward, Enrico Fermi, Siegfried Fl gge, James Franck, Hans Geiger, Wolfgang Genter, Walter Grotrian, Werner Heisenberg, Victor F. Hess, Erich H ckel, Friedrich Hund, Abram Joffe, Pater Kapitza, Max von Laue, Hendrik A. Lorentz, Qirino Majorana, George Menzer, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Carl Ramsauer, Ernest Rutherford, Paul Scherer, Erwin Schrd̲inger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Carl Friedrich von Weizsc̃ker, Max Wien, Pieter Zeeman, Jonathan Zenneck.
Debye (1884-1966) physical chemist (molecular structure, quantum theory, magnetism, polymers). 1911 Associate professor for Theoretical Physics, Electrotechnical College Z rich, 1912 Professor of Theoretical Physics Utrecht, 1914 Professor Theoretical, later Practical Physics, Gt̲tingen, 1920 Professor of Physics, Electrotechnical College Zurich, 1927 Professor of Experimental Physics, Leipzig; 1934 Professor of Physics, Berlin; 1935-1945 (after end of 1939 on leave); Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics; 1940-1950 Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1936 for "his contributions to our understanding of molecular structures through his research on dipolar momentum, and his research on the bending of x-rays and research on electrons in gases.
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884- -- Friends and associates.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Franck, James, 1882-1964.
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Group work in research.
Solid state physics
Physicists -- Germany.
Bewilogua, Ludwig.
Bodenstein, Max.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933.
Eucken, Arnold.
Eward, Paul.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Fl gge, Siegfried.
Geiger, Hans, 1882-
Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906-1980
Grotrian, Walter.
Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976.
Hess, Victor Francis, 1883-1964.
H ckel, Erich.
Hund, Friedrich, 1896-1997
H ckel, Erich.
Joffe, Abram.
Kapitza, Pater.
Laue, Max von, 1879-1960.
Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928.
Majorana, Qirino.
Menzer, George.
Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941.
Planck, Max, 1858-1947.
Ramsauer, Carl.
Scherer, Paul.
Schrd̲inger, Erwin, 1887-1961.
Somerfeld, Arnold.
Wien, Max.
Wiezc̃ker, Carl Friedrich von.
Zeeman, Pieter.
Zenneck, Jonathan.
German Bunsen Society.
German Physics Society.
Leipziger Wochen (Germany).
AIP-ICOS
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