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Wilhelm Wien

Scientist · born January 13, 1864 · died 1928

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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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  1. ~47Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1911
  2. ~61Became rector1925

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