Max von Laue: intrepid and true : a biography of the physics Novel Laurete / Jost Lemmerich.
Lemmerich, J.
2022
QC16.L384
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Title Max von Laue: intrepid and true : a biography of the physics Novel Laurete / Jost Lemmerich.
Author Lemmerich, J.
Uniform Title Max von Laue -- Furchtlos und treu. English
ISBN 9783030946999 (electronic bk.)
3030946991 (electronic bk.)
3030946983
9783030946982
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94699-9
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-94699-9 doi
Call Number QC16.L384
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.092
Summary This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making. The discovery by Max von Laue in 1912 of interference effects demonstrated the wave-like nature of X-rays and the atomic lattice structure of crystals. This major advance for research on solids earned him the Nobel Prize two years later, the ultimate acclaim as an exceptional theoretician. As an early supporter of Einsteins relativity theory, he published fundamental papers on light scattering as well as on matter waves and superconductivity. Laue may be counted among the few persons of influence in Germany who as Einstein put it managed to "stay morally upright" under Nazism. It is thus surprising that this is the first extensive biography of this famous scientist. Jost Lemmerich could hardly have been better equipped to describe German physics and physicists in the 1920s. His copiously illustrated historical account is based as much on scientific material as on private correspondence, creating a fascinating and convincingly detailed portrait.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 16, 2022).
Series Springer biographies, 2365-0621
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Foreword
Introduction
Childhood and youth
Studies in physics
Doctoral dissertation and first scientific research
Private lecturer at the University of Munich
Professorship in Zurich
Professorship in Frankfurt am Main, WW I, Nobel Prize in physics
Berlin general and special theories of relativity
Physics and politics in Berlin during the 1930s
Physics and politics during WW II
Wars end and Farm Hall
Back in Germany
Back in Berlin in West Berlin.

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