Wilhelm Wien

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 1911
for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat

occupation: university teacher
physicist
theoretical physicist
field of work: radiation
physics
heat
educated at: University of Göttingen
start time: 1882
end time: 1883
Frederick William University Berlin
academic degree: habilitation
start time: 1890
end time: 1892
Frederick William University Berlin
academic degree: Doctor
start time: 1883
end time: 1886
Altstadt Gymnasium
end time: 1882
employer: University of Würzburg
start time: 1900
end time: 1920
Frederick William University Berlin
start time: 1892
end time: 1896
RWTH Aachen University
start time: 1896
end time: 1899
University of Giessen
start time: 1899
end time: 1900
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
start time: 1920
end time: 1926
position held: chairperson
start time: 1920
end time: 1922
rector
start time: 1925
end time: 1926
co-editor
start time: 1906
end time: 1928
work location: Aachen
Munich
Prussia
member of: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
doctoral student: Karl Hartmann
Hans Rau
Eduard Rüchardt
Robert Döpel
notable work: mass spectrometer
Wien approximation
Wien's displacement law

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