biography
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Laue, Max (Theordor Felix) von
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pronunciation:
[lowuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1960)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born near Koblenz, W Germany. As professor of physics at Zürich (1912), he worked on X-ray diffraction in crystals, leading to the use of X-rays to study the atomic structure of matter. He supported Einstein's theory of relativity, and investigated quantum theory and the Compton effect. He was appointed director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1919, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Research in Physical Chemistry, Berlin in 1951. He was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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