Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien (January 13, 1864 – August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to compose Wien's Law, which relates the maximum emission of a blackbody to its temperature.

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As Max von Laue wrote of Wien, "his immortal glory" was that he "led us to the very gates of quantum physics".

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Wien was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1911. A crater on Mars is named in his honor.

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January 13: January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year)....

1864: 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar)....

August 30: August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining....

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