Crystallographer Udo Heinemann of the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin has pointed out to me that a Max von Laue prize does in fact exist. It is awarded by the German Crystallographic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie, DGK) annually to junior scientists for “outstanding work in the field of crystallography in the broadest sense”, and is worth 1500 euros. I have discussed elsewhere the perils of this “name game”, but given that everyone plays it, I am pleased to see that Laue has not been overlooked. It seems all the more fitting to have this pointed out during the International Year of Crystallography.
A prize for Max von Laue
Crystallographer Udo Heinemann of the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin has pointed out to me that a Max von Laue prize does in fact exist. It is awarded by the German Crystallographic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie, DGK) annually to junior scientists for “outstanding work in the field of crystallography in the broadest sense”, and is worth 1500 euros. I have discussed elsewhere the perils of this “name game”, but given that everyone plays it, I am pleased to see that Laue has not been overlooked. It seems all the more fitting to have this pointed out during the International Year of Crystallography.