Emil Warburg

Details

Instance of

human

Born

9 March 1846

Died

28 July 1931

Conflict

Franco-Prussian War

Place of birth

Altona

Place of death

Bayreuth

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Emil, Aemilius, Gabriel

Family name

Warburg

Child

Otto Heinrich Warburg

Field of work

physics, kinetic theory, electrical conductance, thermal radiation, ferromagnetism, photochemistry

Occupation

physicist, university teacher

Citizenship

German Reich

Native language

German

Religion

Lutheranism

Awards

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

archives at

Berlin State Library

birth name

Emil Gabriel Warburg

depicted by

Emil Warburg

described by source

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

doctoral advisor

Heinrich Gustav Magnus, August Kundt

doctoral student

Georg Meyer, Clemens Schaefer, Edgar Meyer, Heinrich Greinacher, Erich Regener, James Franck, Robert Pohl, Georg Meyer, Eduard Grüneisen, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

educated at

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Heidelberg University

employer

University of Freiburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

family

Warburg family

languages spoken, written or signed

German

member of

Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, Burschenschaft Allemannia zu Heidelberg, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony

name in native language

Emil Warburg

nominated for

Nobel Prize in Physics

participant in

1st Solvay Conference on Physics

place of burial

Q101493105

professorship

professor

residence

Germany

student

James Franck

work location

Freiburg im Breisgau

writing language

German

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