von Laue
Britishnoun
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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 • Oct. 8, 2025
X-ray crystallography was invented by Max von Laue, improved by the father-son team of W. H. and W.L.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2015
The experiments were convincing, and the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to von Laue for his suggestion leading to the proof that x rays are EM waves.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Bragg had deduced what von Laue had struggled with: how individual spots on an X-ray diffraction pattern related to the atomic structure of the crystal that scattered them.
From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2012
The prize for physics has been awarded to Professor Max von Laue of Frankfort-on-Main, for his work on the diffraction of rays in crystals.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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