Skip to main content

This link is exclusively for students and staff members within this organisation.

Unauthorised use will lead to account termination.

Previous

Seeing the light

Next

Fibres, fluids and Fermi

The Nobel prize in 1914

Diffraction of X-rays

The 1914 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to the German physicist Max Theodor Felix von Laue (1879–1960) for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals 2 years earlier

Max von Laue

The terms in bold link to topics in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and CCEA A-level specifications, as well as the IB, Pre-U and SQA exam specifications.

Max von Laue’s discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals established the nature of X-rays as electromagnetic radiation of very short wavelength and proved that crystals are composed of atoms arranged in a regular three-dimensional lattice.

Your organisation does not have access to this article.

Sign up today to give your students the edge they need to achieve their best grades with subject expertise

Subscribe

Previous

Seeing the light

Next

Fibres, fluids and Fermi

Related articles: