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Max Wien

1866 - 1938

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Max Karl Werner Wien (German: [ˈviːn]; 25 December 1866 – 22 February 1938) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He was born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of the co-owner of the well-known Castell grain company, Otto Wien. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Wien has received more than 45,656 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Max Wien is the 517th most popular physicist (up from 522nd in 2019), the 1,228th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,276th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Max Wien ranks 517 out of 851. Before him are William Edward Ayrton, Lester Germer, Alan Sokal, John Henry Schwarz, Heinrich Barkhausen, and Andreas von Ettingshausen. After him are Abraham Pais, Konstantin Novoselov, George Zweig, Yakir Aharonov, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, and Ernest Marsden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Max Wien ranks 85. Before him are Paolo Troubetzkoy, Tristan Bernard, Georg Jensen, Ignacy Daszyński, Kuroda Seiki, and Tor Aulin. After him are Avetis Aharonian, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Janis Rozentāls, Carl Gustav Witt, Antonia Maury, and Erik Ivar Fredholm. Among people deceased in 1938, Max Wien ranks 131. Before him are Erik Werenskiold, Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia, Jānis Rudzutaks, Samuel Alexander, Jane Toppan, and Gösta Ekman. After him are Aleksandar Malinov, Turar Ryskulov, Leopoldo Lugones, Alexander Svechin, Mirza Davud Huseynov, and Władysław Grabski.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 1,228 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Kutepov (1882), Nikolai Noskov (1956), Sergei Shtemenko (1907), Igor Gouzenko (1919), Vladimir Basov (1923), and Edvard Radzinsky (1936). After him are Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693), Gennady Padalka (1958), Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807), and Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 30. Before him are Boris Podolsky (1896), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), and Andrei Linde (1948). After him are Konstantin Novoselov (1974), George Zweig (1937), Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Lev Artsimovich (1909), and Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945).

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