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Max von Laue
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Person

Max von Laue

1879 – 1960 · aged 81

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)

Born
9 Oct 1879 · Koblenz-Pfaffendorf
Died
24 Apr 1960 · West Berlin
Part ofGermany1,250 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 93 years
  1. 9 Oct 1879BornBorn in Koblenz-Pfaffendorf
  2. 1914AwardMatteucci Medal
  3. 1914AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  4. 1921AwardAdolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal
  5. 1924AwardHonorary member of the German Mineralogical Society
  6. 1924AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  7. 1932AwardMax Planck Medal
  8. 1949AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  9. 1952AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  10. 1952AwardX-ray badge
  11. 1959AwardErnst Reuter Medal
  12. 1959AwardHelmholtz Medal
  13. 24 Apr 1960DiedDied in West Berlin

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1879 – 1960).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System

Biography

Max Theodor Felix von Laue (German: [maks fɔn ˈlaʊ̯ə] ; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received 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, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and the theory of relativity, Laue had a number of administrative positions which advanced and guided German scientific research and development during four decades. A strong objector to Nazism, he was instrumental in re-establishing and organizing German science after World War II.

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