Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat.”

German Physicist. Wien was born on January 13, 1864 at Fischhausen, in East Prussia. He went, in 1882, to the University of Gottingen the University of Berlin. From 1883 until 1885 he worked in the laboratory of Hermann von Helmholtz in 1886 he took his doctorate. He was President of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. He was appointed Professor of Physics at Aix-la-Chapelle (1896), at universities of Giessen (1899), Würzburg (1899) Munich (1920), where he remained throughout the rest of his life. Wien died in Munich on August 30, 1928.