![]() A new professor extraordinarius chair of theoretical physics had been created in 1914 at the University of Berlin. Upon his father's elevation to the ranks of hereditary nobility in 1913, he became 'Max von Laue'. In 1912, Laue was called to the University of Zurich as an extraordinarius professor of physics. While at Munich, he wrote the first volume of his book on relativity during the period 1910 to 1911. In June, Sommerfeld reported to the Physikalische Gesellschaft of Göttingen on the successful diffraction of X-rays by Laue, Paul Knipping and Walter Friedrich at LMU, for which Laue would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1914. Laue seemed distracted and wanted to know what would be the effect if much smaller wavelengths were considered. The wavelengths of concern to Ewald were in the visible region of the spectrum and hence much larger than the spacing between the resonators in Ewald's crystal model. It was on a walk through the Englischer Garten in Munich in January, that Ewald told Laue about his thesis topic. During the 1911 Christmas recess and in January 1912, Paul Peter Ewald was finishing the writing of his doctoral thesis under Sommerfeld. įrom 1909 to 1912, Laue was a Privatdozent at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, under Arnold Sommerfeld, at LMU. In Berlin, he worked on the application of entropy to radiation fields and on the thermodynamic significance of the coherence of light waves. ![]() Laue continued as assistant to Planck until 1909. He also met Albert Einstein for the first time their friendship contributed to the acceptance and development of Einstein's theory of relativity. He was a Privatdozent in Berlin and an assistant to Planck. Laue completed his Habilitation in 1906 under Arnold Sommerfeld at LMU. Thereafter, Laue spent 1903 to 1905 at Göttingen. At Berlin, Laue attended lectures by Otto Lummer on heat radiation and interference spectroscopy, the influence of which can be seen in Laue's dissertation on interference phenomena in plane-parallel plates, for which he received his doctorate in 1903. There, he studied under Max Planck, who gave birth to the quantum theory revolution on 14 December 1900, when he delivered his famous paper before the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. After only one semester at Munich, he went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin in 1902. At Göttingen, he was greatly influenced by the physicists Woldemar Voigt and Max Abraham and the mathematician David Hilbert. In 1898, after passing his Abitur in Strassburg, he began his compulsory year of military service, after which in 1899 he started to study mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the University of Strassburg, the University of Göttingen, and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). ![]() Laue was born in Pfaffendorf, now part of Koblenz, Germany, to Julius Laue and Minna Zerrenner. A strong objector to Nazism, he was instrumental in re-establishing and organizing German science after World War II. 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. ![]() Max Theodor Felix von Laue ( German: ( listen) 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. ![]()
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