Emil Warburg


Emil Gabriel Warburg 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, Eduard Grüneisen, Robert Pohl, Erich Regener and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.
He was a member of the Warburg family, and the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg. He was a friend of Albert Einstein.