Max Von Laue - Organizations

Organizations

• 1919: Corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
• 1921: Regular member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
• From 1921: Chairman of the physics commission of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (Renamed in 1937: Deutsche Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung und Förderun der Forschung. No longer active by 1945.)
• From 1922: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Potsdam Astrophysics Observatory
• 1925 – 1933: Advisor to the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Today: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt). Laue had been sacked in 1933 from his advisory position by Johannes Stark, Nobel Prize recipient and President of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, in retribution for Laue’s open opposition to the Nazis by blocking Stark’s regular membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
• 1931 – 1933: : Chairman of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
• Memberships in the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Kant Society, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1960), the American Physical Society, the Société Française de Physique and the Société Française de Mineralogie et Crystallographie.
• Corresponding Member of the Academies of Sciences of Göttingen, Munich, Turin, Stockholm, Rome (Papal), Madrid, the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, and the Royal Society of London.