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THE memorial addressn Prof. O. Wiener delivered by Prof. L. Weicknany a before the Academy of Science at Leipzig an July 1 is reproduced in the Berichte of the Academy for that date. Otto Wiener, the son of hristian Wiener, professor of mathematics in Karlsruhe, was born on June 15, 1862, and after leaving school became a student in Karlsruhe, Berlin, and Strasbourg in succession. At Strasbourg he was associated with Kundt, and obtained his doctorate in 1887 with a thesis on the measurement of the thickness of the thin metallic films used by Kundt in his work on the passage of light through metals. After acting as assistant in Strasbourg and in Aix-la-Chapelle, Wiener was appointed professor at the latter in 1894, and at Giessen in 1895. After building a new physics institute there, he was appointed to Leipzig in 1899 and built a still larger institute, which was opened in 1905. He had much to do with the establishment of aeronautical and meteorological departments at Leipzig, and more recently was engaged in developing a kinetic ether theory of the universe. He is, however, best known for his"optical researches. He died on Jan. 18 last.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 120, 777 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120777a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120777a0