What nationality was Wilhelm Wien?
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Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist. He is best known for his work on the Wien displacement law, which describes the distribution of energy in the black-body spectrum. He also made contributions to the study of the photoelectric effect and the development of quantum theory.
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