Crystallographer Max von Laue was a Nobel Prize winner in 1914, and at the time a member of the Ludwig Maximillians Universitaet Muenchen (LMU). Because of this award, the International Union of Crystallography has named 1914 the Year of Crystallography, and this talk will trace some history, some personal reminiscences of Colin, a retired Chemical Crystallographer from the (then) Department of Chemistry, and an overview of x-ray crystallography from the first structure to today's half a million compounds.
