Max von Laue (1879-1960)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.”

German theoretical physicist. von Laue was born in Pfaffendorf, Germany on October 9, 1879. He was educated at the universities of Strasbourg, Gottingen, Munich, Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate in 1903. In 1909 he went to the University of Munich, in 1912 he became Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich. In 1914 he moved, as Professor of Physics, to Frankfurt. In 1919 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin. From 1934 onwards he acted as a consultant to the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt at Berlin-Charlottenburg. von Laue died in Berlin, April 24, 1960.