Handover of the Debye Archives

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 was awarded to Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye: “for his contribution to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases.”

Program:
14.30 Welcome with coffee/tea
15.00 Introduction by Amito Haarhuis (CEO Rijksmuseum Boerhaave)
15.10 Professor Jeroen van Dongen: Peter Debye
15.30 Intermezzo: audiovisuals of Peter Debye
15.40 Norwig Debye: the story of the medaillons
16.00 Wiel Rosseau: meeting Peter Debye and the story of the archives
16.20 Ceremonial handover of the archives to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
16.30 Reception
17.30 Closing