The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911
Awarded on: 1911-11-07
"for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat"
Affiliations:
- Würzburg University – Würzburg, Germany
Wilhelm Wien
Born: 1864-01-13 in Gaffken, Prussia (now Parusnoye, Russia)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (1864–1928)
Biography
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.