1914
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1914
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreMax von Laue – Biographical
Biographical
Max Laue was born on October 9, 1879 at Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz. He was the son of Julius von Laue, an official in the German military administration, who was raised to hereditary nobility in 1913 and who was often sent to various towns, so that von Laue spent his youth in Brandenburg, Altona, Posen, Berlin…
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Presentation
Press release
The following account of von Laue’s work is by Professor G. Granqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of Seldom indeed can a discovery in the field of physics have given rise to such intensive research work as did that of in 1896, when he proved the existence of a new form of rays…
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