Nobel Prize in Physics 1914
Photo: Franz Schmelhaus. Nobel Foundation archive
Max von Laue
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 was awarded to Max von Laue "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals"
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