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    May 14, 2018 · Science and Technology. Physics: Biographies. Max von Laue. Laue, Max von. views 2,065,611 updated May 14 2018. Laue, Max von. ( b. Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz, Germany, 9 October 1879; d. Berlin, Germany, 24 April 1960), theoretical physics.

  2. Nov 7, 2012 · In the summer of 1912, a 22-year-old graduate student went on holiday with his parents to Britain's Yorkshire coast. There, his father, the physicist William H. Bragg, received a letter describing...

  3. Max von Laue was a German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of X-ray crystallography, which helps in determining the arrangement of atoms in some substances.

  4. Max Theodore Felix von Laue (Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz, October 9, 1879 – April 24, 1960 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He demonstrated that X-rays were electromagnetic waves by showing that they produce a diffraction pattern when they pass through a crystal, similar to the pattern light exhibits when it passes through a diffraction grating.

  5. Authors: Jost Lemmerich. A unique scientific biography of an important German physicist and science policymaker. Tells the story of an influential anti-Nazi German Nobel laureate in interwar and postwar Berlin. Gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making.

  6. Oct 9, 2020 · physics 9. October 2020 0 Harald Sack. Max von Laue (1879 – 1960) On October 9, 1879, German physicist Max von Laue was born. Von Laue received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. “In the beginning was mechanics.”. – Max von Laue (1950).

  7. Mar 10, 2023 · Max von Laue – intrepid and true: a biography of the physics Nobel laureate. by Jost Lemmerich, Switzerland, Springer Cham., 2022, xxii + 414 pp., USD 49.26 (hardback), ISBN: 978-3-030-94698-2 (hardback); ISBN: 978-3-030-94699-9 (eBook) Moreton Moore Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK m.moore@rhul.ac.uk.

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