Wilhelm Wien
German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911.
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πBiography
Wilhelm 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.
πMajor Works & Achievements
- β¦Formulated Wien's displacement law
- β¦Nobel Prize in Physics (1911)
- β¦Contributions to blackbody radiation theory
π¬Famous Quotes
"The goal of physics is to find the simplest explanation.
"Science requires patience and precision.
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