Emil Warburg

Emil Gabriel Warburg (1846 to 1931) was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Strassburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He carried out research in the areas of the kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry, and his name is notably associated with the Warburg element of electrochemistry. He was president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft from 1899 to 1905 and was elected to honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 17 April 1894. Among his students were James Franck, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925, Eduard Grüneisen, Robert Pohl, Erich Regener and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929. He was the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg, Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1931, and a friend of Albert Einstein.