German physicist Max Theodore Felix von Laue (October 9 1879 - April 24 1960), Nobel laureate in 1914 for his work in x-ray interference. Laue also contributed to the fields of optics, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and the theory of relativity (working with Einstein, whose bust can be seen on a shelf in the background). He also had a number of administrative positions which advanced and guided German science for decades.