What year did Wilhelm Wien win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Wilhelm Wien won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911 for his work on blackbody radiation. He developed the Wien displacement law, which states that the peak wavelength of blackbody radiation is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature of the body. This law is a key part of Theory of blackbody radiation, which describes the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a perfect blackbody.
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