PHYSICIST

Emil Warburg

1846 - 1931

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Emil Gabriel Warburg (German pronunciation: [ˈeːmiːl ˈvaːɐ̯bʊʁk]; 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Warburg is the 497th most popular physicist (up from 564th in 2019), the 3,203rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,898th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Warburg ranks 497 out of 851. Before him are Christian Mayer, Toshiko Yuasa, Meghnad Saha, Augusto Righi, Heinrich Rubens, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. After him are Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Robert Serber, Charles Galton Darwin, Alfred Ewing, and Eugen Goldstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Emil Warburg ranks 62. Before him are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Albert Apponyi, Luigi Denza, Carlos Pellegrini, Marie Popelin, and Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti. After him are Edouard Van Beneden, Martin Wegelius, Holger Drachmann, Ernest Monis, Alexander Karpinsky, and Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz. Among people deceased in 1931, Emil Warburg ranks 74. Before him are Wilson Bentley, Nicolae Paulescu, David Starr Jordan, Hanns Hörbiger, Rachel Bluwstein, and Viktor Dyk. After him are Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Motilal Nehru, Osachi Hamaguchi, Bix Beiderbecke, Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, and Louis Dollo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Warburg ranks 3,205 out of 7,253. Before him are Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), Dominikus Zimmermann (1685), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Friedrich Wolf (1888), Olga Benário Prestes (1908), and Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (1649). After him are Caspar Netscher (1639), Theodor Meynert (1833), Anna of Hesse (1529), Felix von Luckner (1881), Karl Rapp (1882), and Hans Meyer (1858).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Emil Warburg ranks 73. Before him are Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Heinrich Rubens (1865), and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826). After him are Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), August Beer (1825), Pief Panofsky (1919), Woldemar Voigt (1850), and Ursula Franklin (1921).

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