Wilhelm Wien
1864 – 1928 · aged 64
German physicist (1864-1928)
- Born
- 13 Jan 1864 · Parusnoye
- Died
- 30 Aug 1928 · Munich
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- 13 Jan 1864BornBorn in Parusnoye
- 1901AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1906 – 1928RoleCo-editor
- 1911AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1920 – 1922RoleChairperson
- 1925AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1925AwardGuthrie Lecture
- 1925 – 1926RoleRector
- 30 Aug 1928DiedDied in Munich
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- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈviːn] ; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
Wien also formulated an expression for the black-body radiation, which is correct in the photon-gas limit. His arguments were based on the notion of adiabatic invariance, and were instrumental for the formulation of quantum mechanics. Wien received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911 for his work on heat radiation.
He was a cousin of Max Wien, inventor of the Wien bridge.
His great-great-granddaughter now lives in Munich but wishes to remain anonymous.
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