German physicist, born 1866 in Königsberg (Prussia, at that time german, today Kaliningrad, Russia), died 1938 in Jena, Germany. Max Wien was director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He invented the "Löschfunkensender" (generator of slightly weakened electromagnetic oscillations, used for example on the RMS Titanic) during the years 1906-1909 and the Wien bridge oscillator in 1891. At that time, Wien did not have a means of developing electronic gain so a workable oscillator could not be realized (William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, realized it later in 1939). Erwin Schrödinger in his autobiography "Mein Leben, Meine Weltansicht" described Wien as "moderately anti-semitic". The name Königsberg can refer to two cities: present-day Kaliningrad in Russia, until 1945 a capital of East Prussia in the former German Empire Königsberg in Bayern, a small city in Bavaria in present-day Germany This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Locator map on an international level map of Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad (Russian: Калининград), seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic Sea. ... Map of Germany showing Jena Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ... Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was named for the German writer Friedrich Schiller. ... The New York Herald reports the disaster. ... William R. Hewlett (May 20, 1913 - January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). ... The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Erwin Schrödinger, as depicted on the former Austrian 1000 Schilling bank note. ... Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards Jews (not: Semites - see the Misnomer section further on). ...