Max von Laue and X-ray Diffraction

Germany · 1979 · 60 Pfennig

The stamp features a portrait of Max von Laue on the left, alongside a diagram illustrating the diffraction of X-rays through a crystal lattice on the right.

This stamp commemorates Max von Laue, a German physicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals. It is part of a series honoring Nobel laureates.