If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

Furthermore in response to Laue blocking Stark’s regular membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences Stark in December 1933 had Laue sacked from his position as advisor to the PTR which Laue had held since 1925. Laue as one of the organizers of the weekly Berlin Physics Colloquium typically sat in the front row with Nernst and Einstein who would come over from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik in Berlin-Dahlem where he was the director. (2000).

A strong objector to National Socialism he was instrumental in re-establishing and organizing German science after World War II. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics crystallography quantum theory superconductivity and the theory of relativity he had a number of administrative positions which advanced and guided German scientific research and development during four decades.