Blackbody radiation Wien filter Wien's displacement law Wien's distribution law
Spouse
Luise Mehler (1898) (1877-1961)
Awards
Guthrie Lecture (1925) Nobel Prize for Physics (1911)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
University of Giessen University of Würzburg University of Munich RWTH Aachen
Doctoral advisor
Hermann von Helmholtz
Doctoral students
Gabriel Holtsmark Eduard Rüchardt
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German pronunciation:[ˈvɪlhɛlmˈviːn]ⓘ; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) 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.
He also formulated an expression for the black-body radiation, which is correct in the photon-gas limit. His arguments were based on the notion of adiabatic invariance, and were instrumental for the formulation of quantum mechanics. Wien received the 1911 Nobel Prize for his work on heat radiation.
He was a cousin of Max Wien, inventor of the Wien bridge.
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈviːn] ; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893...
(frequently called the blackbody function). This law was first derived by WilhelmWien in 1896. The equation does accurately describe the short-wavelength (high-frequency)...
of the well-known Castell grain company, Otto Wien. He was a cousin of Nobel laureate WilhelmWien. Wien studied in Konigsberg, Freiburg, and Berlin under...
Mathematics at the Bergakademie in Clausthal-Zellerfeld; he was successor to WilhelmWien. This appointment provided enough income to eventually marry Johanna...
club was (thanks to Wilhelm Goldschmidt), taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid, following the example of Rapide Berlin. Wien or Vienna are commonly...
unaffected while other particles will be deflected. It is named for WilhelmWien who developed it in 1898 for the study of anode rays. It can be configured...
German scientist Eugen Goldstein, in 1886. Later work on anode rays by WilhelmWien and J. J. Thomson led to the development of mass spectrometry. Goldstein...
("Carlo") Wien (10 September 1906 – c. 14 June 1937) was a German mountaineer. Born in Würzburg, Wien was the son of university professor WilhelmWien, and...
Viswanath von Klitzing constant – Klaus von Klitzing Wien displacement law constant – WilhelmWien List of eponymous laws, for a list of laws named after...
Heinrich Kayser, Eugen Goldstein, WilhelmWien, Arthur König, Henry Augustus Rowland, Albert A. Michelson, Wilhelm Wundt, Fernando Sanford and Michael...
this led to a counter-reaction in the form of an "appeal" formulated by WilhelmWien and addressed to German physicists and scientific publishers, which was...
Werner Hofmann Julius Wess Wilhelm Westphal Christof Wetterich Eilhard Wiedemann Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann Max WienWilhelmWien Otto Wiener Friedwardt Winterberg...
Otto Wallach Albrecht Kossel Paul Heyse International Peace Bureau 1911 WilhelmWien Marie Curie Allvar Gullstrand Maurice Maeterlinck Tobias Asser; Alfred...
MALDI mass spectrometry. 1886 Eugen Goldstein observes canal rays. 1898 WilhelmWien demonstrates that canal rays can be deflected using strong electric and...
1234–1243. Bibcode:1996AIPC..369.1234B. doi:10.1063/1.50410. Wien, W. (1911). "WilhelmWien Nobel Lecture". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on...
residual gas inside the tube. It was another of Helmholtz's students, WilhelmWien, who later conducted extensive studies of canal rays, and in time this...
blackbody is proportional to T4. 1880s and 1890s: Lord Rayleigh and WilhelmWien solved part of the blackbody equation, but both solutions diverged in...
treatment had agreed with the experimentally observed evidence. WilhelmWien proposed Wien's law, which correctly predicted the behaviour at high frequencies...
(b. 1852) August 30 Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (b. 1862) WilhelmWien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) September 9 – Urban...
Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) January 13 – WilhelmWien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) January 21 – Israel...
particle, unlike the negative electrons discovered by J. J. Thomson. WilhelmWien in 1898 identified the hydrogen ion as the particle with the highest...
of the designer Wilhelm Landig in the Margareten district of Vienna. The circle's most prominent and influential members were Wilhelm Landig (1909–1997)...
lighter than that nucleus. Thus, confirming and extending the work of WilhelmWien, who in 1898 discovered the proton in streams of ionized gas, in 1920...
black-body radiation (which was preceded by the discovery of Wien's displacement law, by WilhelmWien, several years prior to Planck) assumes that luminous energy...
the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld and WilhelmWien and at the Georg-August University of Göttingen with Max Born and James...