Max von Laue

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Max von Laue was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals, which provided crucial evidence for the wave nature of X-rays and the atomic structure of matter.

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instanceOf German physicist
Nobel laureate
human
physicist
awardReceived Max Planck Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
surface form: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
causeOfDeath car accident
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
dateOfBirth 1879-10-09
dateOfDeath 1960-04-24
doctoralAdvisor Max Planck
educatedAt Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

University of Göttingen
University of Strasbourg
employer Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

Goethe University Frankfurt
surface form: University of Frankfurt

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
surface form: University of Munich

University of Zurich
familyName Max von Laue self-linksurface differs
surface form: von Laue
fieldOfWork X-ray physics
crystallography
physics
theoretical physics
givenName Max
hasWork Das Relativitätsprinzip
theory of relativity
surface form: Relativitätstheorie
influencedBy Albert Einstein
Max Planck
knownFor X-ray diffraction in crystals
contributions to crystal structure analysis
evidence for wave nature of X-rays
memberOf German Physical Society
Prussian Academy of Sciences
nativeLanguage German
NobelPrize.category Physics
NobelPrize.motivation for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals
NobelPrize.year 1914
notableWork discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals
opposedTo Nazism
surface form: National Socialism
participatedIn World War I
placeOfBirth Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia

Koblenz
placeOfDeath Berlin
positionHeld director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
religion Protestantism
sexOrGender male

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