Max von Laue - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1914
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Max von Laue

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1914
for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals
Citizenship
GermanyGermany
Languages
German
date of birth
10/9/1879
place of birth
Koblenz-Pfaffendorf, Koblenz
date of death
4/24/1960
place of death
West Berlin, Berlin
Lived
80 years
occupation
  • crystallographer
  • university teacher
  • physicist
field of work
  • superconductivity
  • crystallography
  • X-ray
  • physics
  • theory of relativity
educated at
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Strasbourg
  • University of Zurich
  • LMU Munich
employer
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Zurich
  • Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • LMU Munich
work location
  • Munich
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/12/1949
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1958
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 6/11/1922
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/15/1924
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1949
  • American Physical Society
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Göttingen Eighteen
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Max Päsler
  • Max Kohler
  • Karl Otto Kiepenheuer
  • Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer
  • Friedrich Möglich
  • Leó Szilárd
  • Friedrich Beck
notable work
  • X-ray
  • Laue equations
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