Max von Laue

Max von Laue was a German physicist, university teacher, and crystallographer born in Koblenz in 1879. He worked in physics, crystallography, X-ray studies, and the theory of relativity. His academic career included positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the University of Zurich. He studied at the University of Göttingen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the University of Zurich, where his doctoral advisor was Max Planck.

Laue received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Max Planck Medal, the Helmholtz Medal, and the Matteucci Medal. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. His students included Leó Szilárd, and he had a child named Theodore Hermann Von Laue. He died in West Berlin in 1960 and is buried in Göttingen City Cemetery.