Which Happened First?

Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien
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Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who 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.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Auguste CharloisNovember 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910
  2. George Washington Carvercirca January 1, 1864 – January 5, 1943
  3. Robert Grant AitkenDecember 31, 1864 – October 29, 1951
  4. Stéphane JavelleNovember 16, 1864 – August 3, 1917
  5. Walther Hermann NernstJune 25, 1864 – November 18, 1941
  6. Wilhelm Wien (this page)January 13, 1864 – August 30, 1928

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