Jacob Robert Emden was a Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist.
13 Facts About Robert Emden
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Robert Emden is best known for his book, Gaskugeln: Anwendungen der mechanischen Warmetheorie auf kosmologische und meteorologische probleme, published in 1907.
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Robert Emden was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, the eldest of three children.
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Robert Emden studied mathematics and physics in Heidelberg and Berlin and completed his BS Physics in 1885, and his PhD in Physics in 1887 at the University of Strasbourg, which at the time was in the German Empire.
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Robert Emden's thesis was on the vapour pressure of salt solutions.
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Robert Emden was appointed professor of physics at the Technical University of Munich in 1889.
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Robert Emden became associate professor of physics and meteorology at the Technical University of Munich and in 1907 published the classical work Gaskugeln: Anwendungen der mechanischen Warmetheorie auf kosmologische und meteorologische probleme.
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Robert Emden was a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften from 1920 to 1933.
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In 1930 Robert Emden assisted in the founding of Zeitschrift fur Astrophysik and served as the editor for six years.
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Robert Emden's theories suggested that stars have a boundary at a finite radius.
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Robert Emden offered a hypothesis, which has since been discredited, to explain sunspots.
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Robert Emden married Klara Schwarzschild, the sister of German physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild and the aunt of the German-American astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.
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Robert Emden was an avid balloonist and wrote a book on the principles of balloon navigation in 1910.