Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist born on January 13, 1864, in Primorsk, Russia . He is known for his work on blackbody radiation, as well as Wien's displacement law and Wien's distribution law . Wien received the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research .

Wien studied at the University of Göttingen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Humboldt University of Berlin . He was a doctoral student under Hermann von Helmholtz and later advised his own doctoral students, including Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Robert Döpel, and Eduard Rüchardt .

Wilhelm Wien passed away on August 30, 1928, in Munich . He was a father to Karl Wien .