Max von Laue

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Max von Laue or Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1914.

Oct 9, 1879

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: October 9, 1879
  • Died on: April 24, 1960
  • Nationality: German
  • Famous: Scientists, Physicists
  • Spouses: Magdalene Degen
  • Universities:
    • University of Göttingen
    • Humboldt University of Berlin
    • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    • University of Strasbourg
  • Cause of death: Accident

Max von Laue born at

Pfaffendorf, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

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Birth Place

He married Magdalene Degen in 1910 and they had two children.

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Personal Life

Max von Laue died of fatal injuries from a car accident on April 24, 1960.

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Personal Life

He loved mountaineering, skiing, sailing, motoring and classical music.

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Personal Life

Max von Laue was born on October 9, 1879 at Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz in Germany. His father, Julius von Laue, was an official in the German military administration. His mother was Minna Zerrener.

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Childhood & Early Life

He did his schooling in the cities of Posen, Strasbourg and Berlin. During his studies at the Protestant school in Strasbourg, he was first exposed to science by Professor Goering.

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Childhood & Early Life

He left school in 1898 to carry out military training for one year. After completing his military training, he joined the ‘University of Strasbourg’ where he studied physics, chemistry and mathematics.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1902 Max von Laue joined the ‘University of Berlin’ to work under Professor Max Planck after spending one semester at the ‘University of Munich’. Lectures given here by O. Lummer on heat radiation and interference spectroscopy influenced him to carry out his own experiments on interference.

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Career

Max von Laue moved to the ‘University of Gottingen’ after obtaining his doctorate from the ‘University of Berlin’ in 1903. Here he worked under Professor W. Abraham and Professor W. Voight for two years.

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Career

He got the opportunity of becoming the assistant of Professor Max Planck at ‘Institute of Theoretical Physics’ in Berlin in1906 where he worked on thermodynamics and optics.

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Career

He became the ‘Privatdozent’ at the ‘University of Munich in 1909 where he taught thermodynamics, optics and the relativity theory.

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He joined the ‘University of Zurich’ as a professor of physics in 1912. During this time, two of his students under his guidance proved his theory of diffraction of X-rays passing through crystals.

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Max von Laue wrote his book titled ‘History of Physics’ during 1944-1945 which had four editions and was translated into seven other languages.

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Major Works

He also wrote eight papers on the application of the theory of relativity between 1907 and 1911.

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Major Works

He published his book on restricted theory in 1911 and a book on general theory in 1921.

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Major Works