THE election of Max von Laue to foreign membership of the Royal Society will give the greatest pleasure to his many friends in Great Britain and abroad. It is a fitting recorgnition of his life ...

Inconveniently, that evidence was now sitting in Bohr's building, clearly inscribed "Von Laue" (for Max von Laue, winner of the 1914 Prize for Physics) and "Franck" (for James Franck, the physics ...

It was immediately clear from the photographic plates of Max von Laue, Walter Friedrich and Paul Knipping that X-rays opened a link between atomic structure and the macroscopic world (Milestone 2 ...

He died there in 1970 and is buried in the same cemetery in Gottingen as Max Planck and Max von Laue. Gustav, who became a professor of pharmacology at King's College London, ...

Researchers revisit this controversial issue. Who discovered that E = mc 2?It’s not as easy a question as you might think. Scientists ranging from James Clerk Maxwell and Max von Laue to a string of ...

Photo: Göttingen Manifesto, Archives of the Max Planck Society. In 1957, 18 distinguished German nuclear scientists signed a joint manifesto addressed to the federal government. In view of the ...

The origins of modern structural biology date back to the 1910s, when the German physicist Max von Laue discovered that biological crystal samples irradiated with X-rays produced diffraction patterns ...