Max Wien

Details

Instance of

human

Born

25 December 1866

Died

22 February 1938, 24 February 1938

Place of birth

Königsberg

Place of death

Jena

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Max, Karl, Werner

Family name

Wien

Field of work

physics

Occupation

physicist, university teacher

Citizenship

German Reich

Awards

Goethe Medal for Art and Science

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary

doctoral advisor

August Kundt, Hermann von Helmholtz

doctoral student

Hermann Backhaus

educated at

University of Göttingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

employer

University of Jena, Gdańsk University of Technology

languages spoken, written or signed

German

member of

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony

name in native language

Max Wien

relative

Wilhelm Wien

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