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Max von Laue
Laue in 1929
BornMax Theodor Felix Laue
9 October 1879(1879-10-09)
Koblenz|Pfaffendorf, Kinrick o Proushie, German Empire
Dee'd24 Apryle 1960(1960-04-24) (aged 80)
Wast Berlin
NaitionalityGerman
Alma materVarsity o Strasbourg
Varsity o Göttingen
Varsity o Munich
Varsity o Berlin
Kent forDiffraction o X-rays
AwairdsNobel Prize for Physics (1914)
Matteucci Medal (1914)
Max Planck Medal (1932)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsVarsity o Zürich
Varsity o Frankfurt
Varsity o Berlin
Max Planck Institute
Doctoral advisorMax Planck
Doctoral studentsLeó Szilárd
Friedrich Beck
Max Kohler
Erna Weber
Ither notable studentsFritz London

Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 Aprile 1960) wis a German physicist that won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery o the diffraction o X-rays bi crystals.[1][2] He forby refusit tae cooperate wi the Nazis.[3]

References

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  1. Stoddart, Charlotte (1 Mairch 2022). "Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up". Knowable Magazine (in Inglis). doi:10.1146/knowable-022822-1.
  2. Jungnickel, Christa; McCormmach, Russell (1986), Intellectual mastery of nature: theoretical physics from Ohm to Einstein. 1: The torch of mathematics, 1800 - 1870, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-41582-6
  3. Coffey, Patrick (2008). Cathedrals of science: the personalities and rivalries that made modern chemistry. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971746-0.