Died 1928-08-30.
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Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien 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.
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science · German physicist (1864–1928) · physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also Wilhelm Wien, Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien, Wien
Born 13 January 1864 · Died 30 August 1928 · Q57068
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1928· 1 entry
1925· 3 entries
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1925).
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1925).
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Career landmark: rector (1925–1926).
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1920· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1920–1922).
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1913· 1 entry
Then, after work by Ernest Rutherford in 1919, Wien's particle was accepted and named the proton
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1911· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1911).
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Wien was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat"
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1906· 1 entry
Career landmark: co-editor (1906–1928).
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1901).
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1900· 2 entries
At the University of Würzburg and in 1920 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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(following the work of George Frederick Charles Searle), he assumed that the entire mass of matter is of electromagnetic origin and proposed the formula
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1898· 1 entry
Identified a positive particle equal in mass to the hydrogen atom
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1896· 1 entry
Wien empirically determined a distribution law of blackbody radiation, later named after him: Wien's law
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1892· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin, habilitation (1890–1892).
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1886· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin, Doctor (1883–1886).
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1883· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1882–1883).
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1882· 2 entries
Attended the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin
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Studied at Altstadt Gymnasium (1882).
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1879· 1 entry
Wien went to school in Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn, Poland) and from 1880 to 1882 he attended the city school of Heidelberg
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1866· 1 entry
His family moved to Drachenstein (now Smokowo, Poland)
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-01-13.
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