AKA Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien

Born: 13-Jan-1864
Birthplace: Fischhausen, East Prussia
Died: 30-Aug-1928
Location of death: Munich, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Blackbody radiation

Father: Carl Wien
Wife: Luise Mehler (m. 1898, four children)

    University: PhD, University of Berlin (1886)
    Professor: Physics, University of Giessen (1899-)
    Professor: Physics, University of Würzburg (1900-)
    Professor: Physics, University of Munich (1920-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1911

Author of books:
Lehrbuch der Hydrodynamik (1900, physics)
Aus dem Leben und Wirken eines Physikers (1930, memoir)

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