1866 - 1938
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, Max Wien ranks 522 out of 717. Before 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.
1930 - 2017
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 516
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 517
1916 - 1997
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 518
1864 - 1926
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 519
1905 - 1993
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 520
1896 - 1971
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 521
1866 - 1938
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 522
1928 - 2012
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 523
1868 - 1957
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 524
1927 - 1992
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 525
1921 - 2010
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 526
1932 - Present
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 527
1904 - 1994
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 528
Among people born in 1866, Max Wien ranks 91. Before 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 125. Before 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.
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 85
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 86
1866 - 1936
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 87
1866 - 1924
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 88
1866 - 1918
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 89
1866 - 1895
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 90
1866 - 1938
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 91
1866 - 1920
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 92
1866 - 1950
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 93
1866 - 1918
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 94
1866 - 1942
HPI: 49.59
Rank: 95
1866 - 1946
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 96
1866 - 1962
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 97
1878 - 1938
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 119
1872 - 1938
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 120
1886 - 1938
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 121
1859 - 1938
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 122
1856 - 1938
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 123
1911 - 1938
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 124
1866 - 1938
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 125
1884 - 1938
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 126
1911 - 1938
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 127
1855 - 1938
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 128
1867 - 1938
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 129
1859 - 1938
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 130
1874 - 1938
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 131
Among people born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 1,280 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1938 - 2022
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 1,274
1958 - Present
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 1,275
13 BC - 34
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 1,276
1868 - 1932
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 1,277
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 1,278
1940 - 2019
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 1,279
1866 - 1938
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 1,280
1909 - 1996
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 1,281
1946 - 2021
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 1,282
1917 - 1965
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 1,283
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 1,284
1869 - 1931
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 1,285
1874 - 1956
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 1,286
Among physicists born in Russia, Max Wien ranks 30. Before 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).
1896 - 1966
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 24
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 25
1866 - 1912
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 26
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 27
1869 - 1933
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 28
1864 - 1926
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 29
1866 - 1938
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 30
1839 - 1896
HPI: 48.81
Rank: 31
1934 - 2017
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 32
1909 - 1973
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 33
1894 - 1952
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 34
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 35
1862 - 1916
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 36