Emil Warburg
Emil Warburg | |
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Born |
Emil Gabriel Warburg 9 March 1846 Altona |
Died |
28 July 1931 85) Bayreuth | (aged
Residence | Germany |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Berlin |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions |
University of Berlin University of Strassburg University of Freiburg |
Doctoral advisor | Heinrich Gustav Magnus |
Doctoral students |
Gustav Heinrich Angenheister Eduard Grüneisen James Franck Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Edgar Meyer R. W. Pohl |
Other notable students | Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
Notes | |
He was the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg. |
Emil Gabriel Warburg (9 March 1846 – 28 July 1931) was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Strassburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He was president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1899-1905. His name is notably associated with the Warburg element of electrochemistry.
Among his students were James Franck (Nobel prize for physics 1925), Eduard Grüneisen, Robert Pohl, Erich Regener and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Nobel prize for chemistry 1929). He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.
He was a member of the Warburg family, and the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg. He was a friend of Albert Einstein.
External links
- Newspaper clippings about Emil Warburg in the 20th Century Press Archives of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW)