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  1. 1864-1928. German physicist who studied
  2. radiation and established the principle,
  3. since known as Wien's law, that the
  4. wavelength at which the radiation from an
  5. idealized radiating body is most intense is
  6. inversely proportional to the body's absolute
  7. temperature. (That is, the hotter the body,
  8. the shorter the wavelength.) For this, and
  9. other work on radiation, he was awarded the
  10. 1911 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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