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Emil Warburg
Emil Warburg
Born	9 March 1846; Altona, Duchy of Holstein
Died	28 July 1931 (aged 85); Bayreuth, Weimar Republic
Alma mater	University of Berlin
Known for	Magnetic refrigeration; Warburg coefficient; Warburg element
Children	Otto Heinrich Warburg
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Berlin; University of Strassburg; University of Freiburg
Thesis	De systematis corporum vibrantium (1867)
Doctoral advisor	Heinrich Gustav Magnus
Doctoral students	Gustav Heinrich Angenheister; Eduard Grüneisen; James Franck; Julius Edgar Lilienfeld; Edgar Meyer [de]; R. W. Pohl
Other notable students	Hans von Euler-Chelpin; William Duane

Emil Gabriel Warburg (German pronunciation: [ˈeːmiːl ˈvaːɐ̯bʊʁk];^[1]^[2] 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 the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg (Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1931). He was a friend of Albert Einstein.

References

^ Dudenredaktion; Kleiner, Stefan; Knöbl, Ralf (2015) [First published 1962]. Das Aussprachewörterbuch [The Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German) (7th ed.). Berlin: Dudenverlag. pp. 340, 895. ISBN 978-3-411-04067-4.
^ Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 477, 1045. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.