Saturday 25 April 2015

24-APR-1960 :- DEATH OF Max von Laue, Nobel Prize Winner.

Max Theodor Felix von Laue 
(9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics,crystallographyquantum theorysuperconductivity, and the theory of relativity, he had a number of administrative positions which advanced and guided German scientific research and development during four decades. A strong objector to National Socialism, he was instrumental in re-establishing and organizing German science after World War II.

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