Max Wien (1866 – 1938) was a German
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and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He was born in
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Max Wien (1866 – 1938) was a German
physicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He was born in
KönigsbergKönigsberg was the capital of eastern Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945. It was founded by the Teutonic Knights just south of the Sambian peninsula in the year 1255 AD during the Northern Crusades and named for King Ottokar II of Bohemia...
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PrussiaThe Province of Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1829-1878 created out of the provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia....
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He invented the "Löschfunkensender" (generator of slightly weakened electromagnetic oscillations, used for example, on the
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) during the years 1906 to 1909 and the
Wien bridge oscillatorA Wien bridge oscillator is a type of electronic oscillator that generates sine waves. It can generate a large range of frequencies. The circuit is based on an electrical network originally developed by Max Wien in 1891....
in 1891. At that time, Wien did not have a means of developing electronic gain so a workable oscillator could not be achieved (William Hewlett, co-founder of
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, was successful in 1939).
Erwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933...
in his autobiography "Mein Leben, Meine Weltansicht" described Wien as "moderately
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He died in
JenaJena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...
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