Human Accomplishment: Wilhelm Wien

a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law

Born

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien 13 January 1864 Gaffken near Fischhausen, Province of Prussia

Died

30 August 1928 (aged 64) Munich, Germany

Known for

Blackbody radiation Wien filter Wien's displacement law Wien's distribution law

Fields

Physics

Alma mater

University of Göttingen University of Berlin

Awards

Nobel Prize for Physics (1911)

Institutions

University of Giessen University of Würzburg University of Munich RWTH Aachen

Spouse(s)

Luise Mehler (1898)

adultbasic

Germany

Doctoral advisor

Hermann von Helmholtz

Doctoral students

Gabriel Holtsmark Eduard Rüchardt

era

1800+