The collection includes most of Debye’s own publications, numerous books on polymer science (his new field in the USA), titles on theoretical physics and on X-ray diffraction, publications of scientific societies and academies of which Debye was a member, books and reports related to his advisory contacts with industrial research organizations (Esso Research and Engineering; DuPont; Celanese; BASF; Hoechst; Philips), histories of universities that awarded him honorary doctorates, and publications of the Robert A. Welch Foundation.
The private library of Maastricht physicist and Nobel prize winner Peter Debye (1884-1966) was donated by the heirs of Debye to the Maastricht Town Library (Stadsbibliotheek) at the end of the 1960s, and transferred to the Maastricht University Library about 1996.
Consulting copies
This collection is not available for loan. You can request items from the closed stacks and consult these in the Parlour room at the Inner City Library. In LibSearch you can browse the Debye collection separately.