Emil Warburg
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Emil Gabriel Warburg (9th March,1846 (Altona) - 28th July,1931 (Bayreuth)) was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Straßburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He became president of the German physical society 1899-1905.
He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, he radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.
Among his students were James Franck (Nobel prize for physics 1925), E. Grueneisen, R. W. Pohl, Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Nobel prize for chemistry 1929).