Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who, in 1893, 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.
13 Facts About Wilhelm Wien
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Wilhelm Wien formulated an expression for the black-body radiation, which is correct in the photon-gas limit.
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Wilhelm Wien's arguments were based on the notion of adiabatic invariance, and were instrumental for the formulation of quantum mechanics.
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Wilhelm Wien was a cousin of Max Wien, inventor of the Wien bridge.
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Wilhelm Wien was born at Gaffken near Fischhausen, Province of Prussia as the son of landowner Carl Wilhelm Wien.
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In 1879, Wilhelm Wien went to school in Rastenburg and from 1880 to 1882 he attended the city school of Heidelberg.
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From 1896 to 1899, Wilhelm Wien lectured at RWTH Aachen University.
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Wilhelm Wien became twice successor of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, in 1900 at the University of Wurzburg and in 1919 at the University of Munich.
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Wilhelm Wien was very active in science politics representing conservative and nationalistic positions though being not as extreme as sharing the attitude of those going to develop the "Deutsche Physik".
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In 1896 Wilhelm Wien empirically determined a distribution law of blackbody radiation, later named after him: Wilhelm Wien's law.
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However, Wilhelm Wien's law was only valid at high frequencies, and underestimated the radiancy at low frequencies.
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Wilhelm Wien developed the Wilhelm Wien filter in 1898 for the study of anode rays.
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In 1911, Wilhelm Wien was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat".