Emil Warburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emil Warburg

German physicist

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1846

Place of Birth: Altona, Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Jul-1931

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Emil Gabriel Warburg (German pronunciation: ['e?mi?l 'va???b??k]; 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 in Physics, 1925), Eduard Grüneisen, Robert Pohl, Erich Regener and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Nobel Prize in 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 (Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1931).
He was a friend of Albert Einstein.