Laue (crater)

Laue is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the west-southwest of the larger crater Campbell, and northeast of the prominent crater D'Alembert.

This crater is a relatively well-formed feature with a sharp-edged rim that has suffered only minor wear. The inner walls are terraced, and slope down to a relatively level interior floor. There is a small central peak located near the midpoint of the floor. A few tiny craterlets lie along the inner walls and the floor.

Laue is named after Max von Laue, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.