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Emil Warburg

Who

Emil Warburg · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; magnetism and gas kinetics (the magnetocaloric Warburg effect)

When

1846, Altona (now Hamburg), Germany — 1931, Grunau, Bavaria, Germany

Where

Germany

Biography

Emil Warburg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; magnetism and gas kinetics (the magnetocaloric Warburg effect)

How & why

Warburg was a physicist who made foundational contributions to the study of magnetism — including the magnetic hysteresis loop and the magnetocaloric effect that bears his name — as well as gas kinetics and photochemistry. He presided over the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and mentored figures such as James Franck. He belonged to the prominent Jewish Warburg family, and was the father of Nobel laureate Otto Warburg.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist; magnetism and gas kinetics (the magnetocaloric Warburg effect)

1846

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics