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Wilhelm Wien

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Also known as Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien

German physicist (1864-1928)

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Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who made important discoveries about how heat and light behave, particularly in understanding the radiation emitted by hot objects. His work laid crucial groundwork for modern physics and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1911

    “for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Wilhelm
Gender
male
Citizenship
Germany
Place of birth
Parusnoye
Place of death
Munich
Child
Karl Wien
Occupation
theoretical physicist
Educated at
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Employer
University of Würzburg
Languages spoken
German
Notable work
black body
Doctoral advisor
Hermann von Helmholtz
Student of
Hermann von Helmholtz
Field of work
heat
Image
Wien2.jpg
Work location
Prussia
Residence
Germany
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date of birth
1864-01-13
date of death
1928-08-30
Commons category
Wilhelm Wien
member of
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Commons gallery
Wilhelm Wien
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
place of burial
Munich Forest Cemetery
relative
Max Wien
name in native language
Wilhelm Wien
birth name
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien
writing language
German
interested in
physics
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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.

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