von Laue
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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All the items up for auction were given to his good friend and physicist colleague Max von Laue in late 1932.
From BBC
Max von Laue gifted them to an acquaintance and Einstein fan, Margarete Hommrich 20 years later, and it was her great-great granddaughter who had now put them up for sale.
From BBC
Stern disliked quanta, and together with his friend Max von Laue, he had pledged that “if this nonsense of Bohr should in the end prove to be right, we will quit physics.”
From Scientific American
With the rise of fascism in Germany, Albert Einstein wrote to his colleague Max von Laue, who had encouraged him to not speak out: “I do not share your view that the scientist should observe silence in political matters, i.e. human affairs in the broadest sense.”
From Scientific American
Since it was a crime to smuggle gold out of Germany during the war, the medals of physicists Max von Laue and James Franck, imprinted with their names and stored for safekeeping in Niels Bohr’s lab in Copenhagen, were clear evidence of wrongdoing.
From National Geographic
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