GermanyMax von Laue
said
Though the churches, in general, abstained from interfering officially, the scientific activities of the physicists have always been influenced by their private religious views.
— pages 3-5
Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
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Lived 1879–1960, aged 81Germany
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He proved that crystals could bend X-rays like light through a prism — a finding so clean it won him a Nobel and handed every future chemist and biologist the tool to see molecules.
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Max Theodor Felix von Laue was born on 9 October 1879 in Germany and trained as a physicist at a moment when X-rays were still mysterious. In 1914 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that crystals diffract X-rays, a breakthrough that opened crystallography as a field and eventually let scientists map the structure of DNA and proteins. His work ranged across optics, quantum theory, superconductivity, and relativity, but he spent four decades in administrative roles steering German research through upheaval. A vocal objector to Nazism, he became instrumental in rebuilding Germ…
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Max von Laue
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In the beginning was mechanics.
— page 15
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