Emil Warburg Scientist

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. He was a friend of Albert Einstein.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 was a member of the Warburg family. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.He was the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg.

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Emil Warburg
Birth dateMarch 09, 1846
Birth place
Germany , Altona Hamburg
Nationality
Germany
Date of deathJuly 28, 1931
Place of death
Germany , Bayreuth
Residence
Germany
Education
Humboldt University of Berlin

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doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Robert Pohl
Gustav Heinrich Angenheister
Field of study
Physicist
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