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Theodore William Richards was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA on January 31, 1868. His father, William T. Richards was a well-known painter of landscapes and seascapes: his mother, Anna, née Matlack, won fame for her poetical works. During his childhood, Richards travelled to England and France and, up to the age of fourteen, he was…

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The following account of von Laue’s work is by Professor G. Granqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of Seldom indeed can a discovery in the field of physics have given rise to such intensive research work as did that of in 1896, when he proved the existence of a new form of rays…

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Max Laue was born on October 9, 1879 at Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz. He was the son of Julius von Laue, an official in the German military administration, who was raised to hereditary nobility in 1913 and who was often sent to various towns, so that von Laue spent his youth in Brandenburg, Altona, Posen, Berlin…