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Max von Laue

German physicist who discovered X-ray diffraction by crystals.

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Max von Laue

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Max von Laue was a German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.[1] Max von Laue's birth occurred on 9 October 1879 in Pfaffendorf, Germany, and his death from a car accident's injuries happened on 24 April 1960.[2][3]

Life and work

Laue studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the University of Strassburg after completing his Abitur and military service in 1898.[2][4] Laue became a Privatdozent at the University of Munich in 1909 and was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich in 1912.[5][6][4] He was appointed Ordinarius Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1914.[6] During World War II, his Nobel Prize gold medal was dissolved in aqua regia by George de Hevesy to prevent Nazi seizure.[7]

After the war, Laue was interned in England at Farm Hall with other German scientists.[8][4] Laue's habilitation was finished in 1906 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where Arnold Sommerfeld oversaw the work.[9] Laue held the position of Ordinarius Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin from 1919 until 1943.[10][4]

What the cited sources add

The Nobel Prize biography notes that Laue’s father was raised to hereditary nobility in 1913, making him Max von Laue.[4] The same source states that Laue published eight papers on relativity between 1907 and 1911.[4] The Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin biography records that Laue helped Einstein’s theory of relativity achieve a breakthrough in science.[11] It also notes that Laue signed the 1957 "Göttinger Manifest" warning against atomic armament of the Bundeswehr.[11]

The Nobel biography reports that Laue was the only member of the Berlin Academy to protest when the Vice-President stated Einstein’s resignation was no loss.[4]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stoddart, "Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up", Knowable Magazine, 1 March 2022 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Waerden, B. L. van der (ed.) (1968) Sources of Quantum Mechanics. Dover. . p. 1.; Planck, Max, "Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspektrum", Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, 1900, p. 237–245 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Max von Laue – Nobel Prize Biography; Max von Laue: Biographical The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914. Nobel Foundation.; Ewald, "Max von Laue 1879-1960", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1960, p. 134–156; Magill, Frank Northen (1989) The Nobel Prize Winners, Salem Press. . p. 198 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Max von Laue – Nobel Prize Biography. facts only, no text reused. nobelprize.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F, see entry for Max von Laue.; Max von Laue Biography – Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin; Ewald, P. P. (ed.) 50 Years of X-Ray Diffraction (Reprinted in pdf format for the IUCr XVIII Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, International Union of Crystallography; Jungnickel, "Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume 2: The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870 to 1925", University of Chicago Press, 1990, p. 284–285 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Max von Laue – American Philosophical Society Author Catalog; Max von Laue – Nobel Prize Biography; Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F, see entry for Max von Laue.; Max von Laue Biography – Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Adventures in radioisotope research – the collected papers of George Hevesy, 1962, Pergamon Press, New York (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: von Laue, "My Development as a Physicist; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY", International Union of CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Max von Laue – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Max von Laue, Ph.D., Universität Berlin, 1903, Dissertation title: Über die Interferenzerscheinungen an planparall; Habilitation title: "Über die Entropie von interferierenden Strahlenbündeln"; Walker, p. 73; Max von Laue – American Philosophical Society Author Catalog; Max von Laue – Nobel Prize Biography; Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F, see entry for Max von Laue.; Max von Laue Biography – Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Max von Laue" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Max von Laue – American Philosophical Society Author Catalog; Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F, see entry for Max von Laue.; Max von Laue – Mathematics Genealogy Project; Lanouette, "Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leó Szilárd the Man Behind the Bomb", Scribners, 1992, p. 56–58 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Max von Laue Biography – Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin. facts only, no text reused. dhm.de

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