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1864 – 1928Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928)Died 30 August 1928, aged 64German physicist who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics for his laws of heat radiation. Wien's displacement law relates the temperature of a black body to its peak wavelength. His work led toward Planck's quantum theory.