Laue
Max Theodor Felix Laue, later known as Max von Laue (1879–1960), was a German physicist who made foundational contributions to X-ray crystallography. In 1912–1913 he demonstrated that X-rays are diffracted by crystalline solids, providing direct evidence of the wave nature of X-rays and the periodic structure of crystals.
Laue conducted experiments using single crystals and beams of X-rays, including polychromatic (white) radiation, and recorded
Laue formulated what are now known as the Laue equations, a set of conditions for diffraction expressed
For this work, Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of
The name Laue endures in crystallography through concepts named after him, such as Laue groups, which classify