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Max von Laue, the son of a military official, was born in Pfaffendorf, Germany on 9th October, 1879. He studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Strassburg. This was followed by periods at the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin, where he worked under Max Planck in the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Berlin (1905-1909).
Laue lectured on optics and thermodynamics at the University of Munich (1909-1912) before becoming Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich.
In 1912 Laue began his pioneering work in measuring the wavelength of x-rays by their diffraction through the closely spaced atoms in a crystal. This work led to the techniques of X-ray spectroscopy, used in nuclear physics. This led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914.
During the First World War Laue was engaged on military work. This included the development of high vacuum tubes used for telephony and wireless communication.
After the war Laue became Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Berlin. He refused to participate in the German atomic-energy project and was in constant conflict with Johannes Stark, who sought to use physics to support the ideology of Adolf Hitler. Laue resigned from his post in 1943 in protest against the policies of the Nazi government.
Along with Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Carl von Weizsacker and Walter Gerlach, and other German scientists working in the field of nuclear physics, Laue was interned in Britain after the war before being allowed to return to Germany in 1946. In 1951 Laue became director of the Max Planck Institute for Research in Physical Chemistry. Max von Laue died in Berlin on 23rd April, 1960.
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