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Wien

American  
[veen] / vin /

noun

  1. Wilhelm 1864–1928, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1911.

  2. German name of Vienna.


Wien 1 British  
/ viːn /

noun

  1. the German name for Vienna

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Wien 2 British  
/ viːn /

noun

  1. Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1864–1928, German physicist, who studied black-body radiation: Nobel prize for physics 1911

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"The mechanism behind short X-ray pulses has been well known for a long time," says Prof. Tenio Popmintchev from the Institute of Photonics at TU Wien.

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The discovery comes from a collaboration between TU Wien and the University of California San Diego and builds on research that helped establish the field of attosecond physics.

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Researchers at TU Wien, working with teams from the University of Vienna, JKU Linz and the University of Innsbruck, have developed a new approach designed to capture and process some of that extra information.

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We agreed to hire the Theatre on the Wien for three evenings, the idea being to give one concert at the end of December and to repeat the experiment twice after a week's interval.

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