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Wilhelm Wien
(13 Jan 1864 - 30 Aug 1928)
German physicist.
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Science Quotes by Wilhelm Wien (1)
But no Anglo-Saxon can understand relativity.
Said at a dinner in 1910, teasing Ernest Rutherford, who replied, 'No, they have too much sense.'
Said at a dinner in 1910, teasing Ernest Rutherford, who replied, 'No, they have too much sense.'
— Wilhelm Wien
Quoted in Richard Reeves, The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2007), 66.
See also: | Relativity (11)
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