Prof. Max von Laue, For.Mem.R.S.

A Reply to an Address of Prof. Max Von Pettenkofer of Munich

A Reply to an Address of Prof. Max Von Petenkofer of Munich

(Continued from page 252.) This work liad scarcely been completed when the arrival of cholera in New York Harbour was announced. Upon the development of the disease in the small towns upon the Delaware river, a cordon de sante was established, and no communication was permitted between the island and the mainland, except by a boat's crew, of whom but one man was permitted to go on shore to obta...

8 X - ray diffraction : the contributions of Max von Laue , W . H . and W . L . Bragg and

The experimental technique which has been of the greatest importance in revealing the structure of crystals is undoubtedly X-ray diffraction. The story of the discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals by Laue,∗ Friedrich and Knipping in Munich in 1912 and the development of the technique by W. H. Bragg∗ andW. L. Bragg∗ in Leeds and Cambridge in the years preceding the First World War is well k...

MAX: Development of a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics

The next generation of instrumentation for nuclear astrophysics will have to achieve an improvement in sensitivity by a factor of 10-100 over present technologies. With the focusing gammaray telescope MAX we take up this challenge and propose to combine the required sensitivity with high spectral and angular resolution, and the capability to measure the polarization of the photons. MAX is a spa...

Max von Pettenkofer Award

In August 1892, a cholera outbreak struck Hamburg. In just a few months, 17 000 cases of the illness were recorded resulting in 8600 deaths within a population of about 640 000 (Evans, 1987). At its peak intensity, only a few weeks after the onset, a thousand illnesses and five hundred deaths were reported daily in the city. Intense but short-lived cholera outbreaks had struck Hamburg and other...