Who was Wilhelm Wien's famous cousin?
Max Wien
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Richard Feynman
Answer
Wilhelm Wien's cousin, Max Wien, was a physicist who is most famous for his work on the Wien displacement law. This law states that the wavelength of the maximum energy of black body radiation is inversely proportional to the temperature of the body. Max Wien also made significant contributions to the study of atomic spectra and to the development of quantum mechanics.
Wonderful Wilhelm Wien: A Journey through the Life of a Visionary Physicist
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