Max von Laue Quotes

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• With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge…
• Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
• For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an…
• For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the…
• There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been…
• If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for…
• For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the…

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