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Max Wien

1866 - 1938

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Max Karl Werner Wien (German pronunciation: [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 42,062 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Wien is the 522nd most popular physicist (down from 507th in 2019), the 1,280th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,090th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Max Wien ranks 522 out of 717Before him are Mildred Dresselhaus, Carlo Rovelli, Robert H. Dicke, Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, and Lester Germer. After him are Sergey Kapitsa, John Sealy Townsend, Gerard K. O'Neill, Samuel T. Cohen, Yakir Aharonov, and Dmitri Ivanenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Max Wien ranks 91Before him are Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Andrey Lyapchev, Ignacy Daszyński, Kuroda Seiki, George Coșbuc, and Władysław Podkowiński. After him are Jaan Poska, Adolf Meyer, Alexander Protopopov, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Carl Gustav Witt, and Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin. Among people deceased in 1938, Max Wien ranks 125Before him are Egon Friedell, Georges Urbain, Florence Lawrence, Samuel Alexander, Rudolf Stammler, and Millosh Gjergj Nikolla. After him are Axel Ljung, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Erik Werenskiold, Aleksandar Malinov, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, and Władysław Grabski.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 1,280 out of 3,262Before him are Nikolai Manoshin (1938), Viacheslav Fetisov (1958), Artaxias III (-13), Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868), Sergei Bodrov (1948), and Reinhard Bonnke (1940). After him are Endel Puusepp (1909), Andrej Hoteev (1946), Johannes Bobrowski (1917), Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), Dmitri Egorov (1869), and Teresa Feoderovna Ries (1874).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 30Before him are Boris Podolsky (1896), George Zweig (1937), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), Boris Rosing (1869), and Vladimir Steklov (1864). After him are Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862).