Remembered for his contributions to the study of crystallography, he earned the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery that crystals could cause the diffraction of X-rays. He also contributed to quantum theory, the theory of relativity, and the physics sub-fields of optics and super conductivity. In the first decade of the Twentieth century, he studied science and mathematics at the University of Strassburg, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the University of G ttingen.
