The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is the national metrology institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, with scientific and technical service tasks. It is a higher federal authority and a public-law institution directly under federal government control, without legal capacity, under the auspices of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
Main entrance to PTB in Braunschweig with the sculpture created by Friedrich Wilhelm Voswinkel
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Max von Laue
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Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
One of the copper sulfate X-ray interference patterns published in Laue's 1912 paper.
Max von Laue c. 1914
Max von Laue's grave in Göttingen