Wilhelm Wien's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈviːn] ; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) 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. The birth-card coordinate for January 13 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1911 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

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

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Wilhelm Wien's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Wilhelm Wien. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

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Wilhelm Wien in the public record

Wien also formulated an expression for the black-body radiation, which is correct in the photon-gas limit. His arguments were based on the notion of adiabatic invariance, and were instrumental for the formulation of quantum mechanics. Wien received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911 for his work on heat radiation. He was a cousin of Max Wien, inventor of the Wien bridge. Wien was born on 13 January 1864 in Gaffken (now Parusnoye, Russia), Prussia, the son of landowner Carl Wien. In 1866, his family moved to Drachenstein (now Smokowo, Poland). In 1879, Wien went to school in Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn, Poland) and from 1880 to 1882 he attended the city school of Heidelberg. In 1882, he attended the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Wilhelm Wien (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Wien received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911 for his work on heat radiation.

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Also on the record

1. From 1883 to 1885, he worked in the laboratory of Hermann von Helmholtz and, in 1886, he received his Ph.D. with a thesis on the diffraction of light upon metals and on the influence of various materials upon the color of refracted light.
2. From 1896 to 1899, Wien lectured at RWTH Aachen University.
3. He became twice successor of Wilhelm Röntgen, in 1900 at the University of Würzburg and in 1920 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
4. Wien was very active in science politics representing conservative and nationalistic positions though being not as extreme as sharing the attitude of those going to develop the Deutsche Physik.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred G. Gilman — 1994 Physiology or Medicine
• Arthur L. Schawlow — 1981 Physics
• Eric Betzig — 2014 Chemistry
• Gabriela Mistral — 1945 Literature
• Georg von Békésy — 1961 Physiology or Medicine
• Gerald M. Edelman — 1972 Physiology or Medicine
• Henryk Sienkiewicz — 1905 Literature
• Léon Jouhaux — 1951 Peace
• Makoto Kobayashi — 2008 Physics
• Myron Scholes — 1997 Economic Sciences
• Otto Loewi — 1936 Physiology or Medicine
• Sydney Brenner — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• 4 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Wilhelm Wien's birth card?

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