Laue, Max von

Laue, Max von

▪ German physicist
in full  Max Theodor Felix von Laue 
born Oct. 9, 1879, Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz, Ger.
died April 23, 1960, Berlin, W.Ger.

      German recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction (Laue diffraction pattern) of X rays in crystals. This enabled scientists to study the structure of crystals and hence marked the origin of solid-state physics, an important field in the development of modern electronics.

      Laue became professor of physics at the University of Zürich in 1912. Laue was the first to suggest the use of a crystal to act as a grating for the diffraction of X rays, showing that if a beam of X rays passed through a crystal, diffraction would take place and a pattern would be formed on a photographic plate placed at a right angle to the direction of the rays. The pattern would mark out the symmetrical arrangements of the atoms in the crystal. (See Laue diffraction pattern.) This was verified experimentally in 1912 by two of Laue's students working under his direction. This success demonstrated that X rays are electromagnetic radiations similar to light and also provided experimental proof that the atomic structure of crystals is a regularly repeating arrangement.

      Laue championed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, did research on the quantum theory, the Compton effect (change of wavelength in light under certain conditions), and the disintegration of atoms. He became director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Berlin in 1919 and director of the Max Planck Institute for Research in Physical Chemistry, Berlin, in 1951.

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