Papers, 1901-1906 and 1918-1945.

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Papers, 1901-1906 and 1918-1945.

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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 Flügge, James Franck, Hans Geiger, Wolfgang Genter, Walter Grotrian, Werner Heisenberg, Victor F. Hess, Erich Hückel, 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 Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Max Wien, Pieter Zeeman, Jonathan Zenneck.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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