Physicist

Wilhelm Wien

1864 - 1928

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His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2024). Wilhelm Wien is the 54th most popular physicist (down from 53rd in 2024), the 56th most popular biography from Russia (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Physicist.

Wilhelm Wien is most famous for his law, which says that the wavelength of a blackbody radiation is inversely proportional to its temperature.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Wilhelm Wien ranks 54 out of 851. Before him are Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, and K. Alex Müller. After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, and Otto Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Wilhelm Wien ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber, Richard Strauss, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After him are George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Alois Alzheimer, Walther Nernst, Maurice Leblanc, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Minkowski, and Alfred Hermann Fried. Among people deceased in 1928, Wilhelm Wien ranks 4. Before him are Roald Amundsen, Thomas Hardy, and Hendrik Lorentz. After him are Maria Feodorovna, Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, Édouard-Henri Avril, Emmeline Pankhurst, Theodore William Richards, Johannes Fibiger, and Franz Stuck.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wilhelm Wien ranks 56 out of NaN. Before him are Ivan Turgenev (1818), Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Georgy Malenkov (1902), and Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919). After him are Alexander Kerensky (1881), Georg Cantor (1845), Rurik (830), Peter Kropotkin (1842), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), and Otto Wallach (1847).

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Among Physicists In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Wilhelm Wien ranks 2. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824). After him are Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Nikolay Basov (1922).

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