Max Von Laue Facts
Max Von Laue Facts
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| Max Theodor Felix von Laue was born in Koblenz. |
| In 1899 he began his studies in physics, chemistry and mathematics and in 1902 he went to Berlin and studied under Max Planck. |
| In 1903 he received a PhD for his dissertation in interference phenomena in plane-parallel plates and from 1903 to 1905 he studied at the University of Gottingen. |
| He defended his Habilitation thesis in 1906 and from 1906 to 1909 was an assistant to Max Planck. |
| In Berlin he became a friend of Albert Einstein's and he contributed to Einstein's theory of relativity. |
| From 1909 to 1912 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Ludwin Maximilian University of Berlin where he met Paul Peter Ewald. |
| Ewald was researching wavelengths in the visible spectrum and it was Laue's research on X-ray diffraction that was crucial to his discoveries. |
| From 1914 to 1919 he was ordinarius professor of theoretical physics at the University of Frankfurt. |
| In 1916 he worked at the University of Wurzburg on the development of vacuum tubes to be used in wireless communication. |
| He worked with Walther Meissner on superconductivity and in 1932 showed that the threshold of a magnetic field which affects superconductivity varies with the shape. |
| Laue was openly opposed to National Socialism, and he and his colleague, Otto Hahn, helped Jewish scientists escape from Germany. |
| On April 23, 1945 Allied troops captured the German nuclear energy research station and Laue was taken to Huntingdon, England and interned at Farm Hall. |
| He was repatriated to Germany in 1946 and worked to restore the German scientific institutions. |
| From 1946 to 1948 he worked to reunify the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and to reestablish it in new quarters in Braunschweig. |
| Between 1951 and 1959 he was the director of the Max-Planck Institute for Physics and Chemistry. |
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