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Wilhelm Wien

1864 - 1928

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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. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Wien is the 54th most popular physicist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Russia (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Physicist.

Wilhelm Wien is most famous for his law, which says that the wavelength of a blackbody radiation is inversely proportional to its temperature.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wilhelm Wien ranks 54 out of 851. Before him are Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, and K. Alex Müller. After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, and Otto Stern.

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Among people born in 1864, Wilhelm Wien ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber, Richard Strauss, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After him are George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Alois Alzheimer, Walther Nernst, Maurice Leblanc, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Minkowski, and Alfred Hermann Fried. Among people deceased in 1928, Wilhelm Wien ranks 4. Before him are Roald Amundsen, Thomas Hardy, and Hendrik Lorentz. After him are Maria Feodorovna, Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, Édouard-Henri Avril, Emmeline Pankhurst, Theodore William Richards, Johannes Fibiger, and Franz Stuck.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wilhelm Wien ranks 56 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Turgenev (1818), Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Georgy Malenkov (1902), and Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919). After him are Alexander Kerensky (1881), Georg Cantor (1845), Rurik (830), Peter Kropotkin (1842), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), and Otto Wallach (1847).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Wilhelm Wien ranks 2. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824). After him are Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Nikolay Basov (1922).

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