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Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who won the Nobel prize for discovering the proton.

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Wilhelm Wien

Birthdate: 1864
Birthplace: East Prussia
Associated organizations: University of Munich
Fields of study: Quantum physics
Awards: Nobel Prize in physics

Biography

Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist and Nobel-Prize winner who pioneered the study of quantum physics.

Wien was born in East Prussia in 1864 to a landholding family. He broke away from his father’s life as a gentleman farmer to study mathematics and physics at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin. Between 1883 and 1885, he worked in Hermann von Helmholtz’s laboratory. In 1886, he took a doctorate with a thesis on the diffraction of light on metal and on the influence of materials on the color of refracted light.

After a brief absence to manage his father’s estate, Wien returned to Helmholtz’s laboratory, and, in 1896, began a series of professorships in physics that culminated in his appointment as Professor of Physics in Munich in 1920.

From early in his career, Wien performed landmark research in thermodynamics. In 1893, he announced what would later be called the law of displacement:

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Dates

January 13, 1864 – August 30, 1928

Authorized Form of Name

Wien, W. (Wilhelm), 1864-1928

Additional Forms of Names

Wien, Wilhelm, 1864-1928

Wien, Willy, 1864-1928

Wien, Willy (Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz), 1864-1928

Abstract

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911 "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat." He held Professorships at University of Munich, University of Wurzburg, University of Giessen, and the Technical University of Aachen, and was a research assistant at University of Berlin.

Important Dates

January 13, 1864Born in Gaffken, Prussia (modern day Russia), Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia).

1883 – 1890Research assistant (doctoral and post-doc) to Hermann von Helmholtz, University of Berlin and Technical University of Aachen.

1886Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany).

1893Announced the law of displacement, which states that the wavelength changes with the temperature.

1896Published the Formu

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Wilhelm Wien

* 24.02.1864 in Gaffken (East Prussia) † 30.08.1928 in Munich

1882      Study of mathematics and physics in Göttingen, later Berlin
1883      Assistant for Helmholtz
1886      Conferral of a doctorate (Promotion)
1889      Assistant at the ‘Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt’
1892      Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation)
1896      Privat-Lecturer in Aachen
1899      Professorship in Gießen
1900      Professorship at the Julius-Maximilians- University Würzburg
1911      Nobel Prize in Physics
1920      Professorship in Munich

Inconsistent Biography

When looking at Wiens biography, it is noticeable, how inconspicuous great ability can be. There was nothing in his childhood – apart from a mathematical talent – that hints at Wilhelm Wien being a future Nobel Prize Winner. Even though his parents we