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Max Wien

1866 - 1938

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Max Karl Werner Wien (German: [ˈmaks ˈkaʁl ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈviːn]; 25 December 1866 – 22 February 1938) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He was born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of the co-owner of the well-known Castell grain company, Otto Wien. He was a cousin of Nobel laureate Wilhelm Wien. Wien studied in Konigsberg, Freiburg, and Berlin under Hermann von Helmholtz and August Kundt, receiving his PhD under Helmholtz in 1888. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Wien is the 626th most popular physicist (down from 518th in 2019), the 1,624th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,228th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Max Wien ranks 626 out of 851. Before him are Franco Rasetti, Abraham Alikhanov, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Charles Kittel, Carl August von Steinheil, and Harriet Brooks. After him are Walther Müller, Georg Hermann Quincke, Ole Jacob Broch, Robert R. Wilson, Georges-Louis Le Sage, and Balthasar van der Pol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Max Wien ranks 118. Before him are Sam Eyde, Carl Theodor Zahle, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Ludwig Aschoff, Adolf Meyer, and Antonio Luna. After him are Jimmy Ross, Tor Aulin, Gustav Lindau, Ragnar Östberg, Pencho Slaveykov, and Gilbert Bougnol. Among people deceased in 1938, Max Wien ranks 169. Before him are Pearl White, Lajos Tihanyi, Anatoly Pepelyayev, José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Al Ernest Garcia, and Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann. After him are Wage Rudolf Supratman, Konstantin Kalinin, Miguel Fleta, Mikayil Mushfig, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, and Karl Madsen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 1,624 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Spivakov (1944), Vladimir Mashkov (1963), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Vladislav Khodasevich (1886), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), and Alexander Odoevsky (1802). After him are Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Vladimir Lisin (1956), Aleksandr Golovin (1863), Carl Neumann (1832), Aleksey Koltsov (1809), and Alexander Gradsky (1949).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 37. Before him are Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Boris Rosing (1869), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Yulii Khariton (1904), and Aleksandr Stoletov (1839). After him are Barys Kit (1910), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Orest Khvolson (1852), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Grigory Landsberg (1890).

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