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  1. Jun 12, 2021 · Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to William and Evelyn Lewis, Carl had athletics in his blood. His mother, Evelyn, competed as a hurdler at the 1951 Pan-Am Games. Carl took things to the next level, though. Lewis relocated to Willingboro, New Jersey, which is where he went to high school. After a successful high school career, he first made a ...

  2. Carl Wien was a gentleman farmer and landowner, and Wilhelm was born on the family farm at Gaffken near Fischhausen. Carl took his family to a farm at Drachenstein, near Rastenburg in East Prussia, when Wilhelm was two years old since the one at Gaffken could no longer support them.

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  4. Early years. Wien was born at Gaffken near Fischhausen, Province of Prussia (now Primorsk, Russia) as the son of landowner Carl Wien. In 1866, his family moved to Drachstein near Rastenburg (Rastembork). In 1879, Wien went to school in Rastenburg and from 1880-1882 he attended the city school of Heidelberg.

  5. Munich, Germany, 30 August 1928) theoretical and experimental physics, philosophy of science. Life. Wien was the only child of Carl Wien, a farmer with land in Gaffken, and Caroline Gertz, 1 both of whose families were descended from ancestors in Mecklenburg.

  6. Jan 13, 2023 · Wien was born at Gaffken near Fischhausen, Province of Prussia (now Primorsk, Russia) as the son of landowner Carl Wien. In 1866, the Wien family, including Wilhelm, moved to Drachenstein near Rastenburg , where his father had purchased an estate.

  7. The son of a farmer from Gaffken in Eastern Europe, Wien studied mathematics and physics for a brief period in 1882 at the University of Göttingen. Having recommenced his studies in 1884 at the University of Berlin, he received a doctorate in 1886 for a thesis on the diffraction of light.

  8. Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy ". [4] Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is ...

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