Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German: [ˈviːn]; 13 Januar 1864 – 30 August 1928) wis a German pheesicist wha, in 1893, uised theories aboot heat an electromagnetism tae deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission o a blackbouk at ony temperatur frae the emission at ony ane reference temperatur.


Wilhelm Wien
BornWilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien
13 Januar 1864(1864-01-13)
Gaffken near Fischhausen, Province o Proushie
Dee'd30 August 1928(1928-08-30) (aged 64)
Munich, Germany
NaitionalityGerman
Alma materVarsity o Göttingen
Varsity o Berlin
Kent forBlackbouk radiation
Wien's displacement law
Hauf-marrae(s)Luise Mehler (1898)
AwairdsNobel Prize for Pheesics (1911)
Scientific career
FieldsPheesics
InstitutionsVarsity o Giessen
Varsity o Würzburg
Varsity o Munich
RWTH Aachen
Columbia Varsity
Doctoral advisorHermann von Helmholtz
Doctoral studentsKarl Hartmann
Gabriel Holtsmark
Eduard Rüchardt