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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1910s (40) 1911 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1860s (52) 1864 (5) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Asia (96) Russia (24) Parusnoje (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1920s (25) 1928 (4) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, central (62) Germany (56) Munich (9) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) W (48) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) W (44) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) W (37) Wilhelm (3) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 48 (21) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, central (117) Germany (98) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, central (70) Germany (64) Würzburg (1) Würzburg UniversityWürzburg University (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Berlin (62) Humboldt University of Berlin (56) Alumni (32) Göttingen (44) University of Göttingen (44) Alumni (20) Munich (51) University of Munich (42) Long-term academic staff (12) Würzburg (14) University of Würzburg (14) Long-term academic staff (6) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) B (102) Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (67) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (54) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (111) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) B (132) Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (25) complete name: Wilhelm Wien nobel prize: physics award year: 1911 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 was awarded to Wilhelm Wien "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Wilhelm family name: Wien occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher occupation: theoretical physicist field of work: physics work location: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Landshut, Germany notable work: black body description: Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature. He also formulated an expression for the black-body radiation which is correct in the photon-gas limit. His arguments were based on the notion of adiabatic invariance, and were instrumental for the formulation of quantum mechanics. Wien received the 1911 Nobel Prize for his work on heat radiation. He was a cousin of Max Wien, inventor of the Wien bridge. pronunciation: (German: [ˈviːn]) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1911/summary/> date birth: 1864 date death: 1928 usual name: Wilhelm Wien
