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Robert Emden

1862 - 1940

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Jacob Robert Emden (4 March 1862 – 8 October 1940) was a Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist. He is best known for his book, Gaskugeln: Anwendungen der mechanischen Wärmetheorie auf kosmologische und meteorologische probleme (Gas spheres: Applications of the mechanical heat theory to cosmological and meteorological problems), published in 1907. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Emden has received more than 28,937 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Emden is the 495th most popular astronomer (down from 472nd in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 525th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Robert Emden ranks 495 out of 644. Before him are Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Patrick Moore, Carlos Torres, Ernest Leonard Johnson, William Wilson Morgan, and Yuji Hyakutake. After him are Frank Shu, Takao Kobayashi, David C. Jewitt, James Challis, Pierre Puiseux, and Michel Giacobini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Robert Emden ranks 138. Before him are Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, Cecilio Báez, Anastasios Metaxas, Adolf Bartels, and Concepción Aleixandre. After him are Antoni Lange, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Semyon Nadson, Frank Weston Benson, and Andrés Héctor Carvallo. Among people deceased in 1940, Robert Emden ranks 169. Before him are Kalliroi Parren, Harry Stafford, Leopold Skulski, George Fitzmaurice, Ervin Mészáros, and Johnny Dodds. After him are Albert Engström, Hendrik Marsman, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, David Hammond, Ole Lilloe-Olsen, and Marcel Van Crombrugge.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Robert Emden ranks 576 out of 1,015. Before him are Leon Schlumpf (1925), Uri Rosenthal (1945), Toni Branca (1916), Karl Röderer (1868), Adolf Spinnler (1879), and Jean Tamini (1919). After him are David Bennent (1966), Kurt Armbruster (1934), Eugène Parlier (1929), Jo Vonlanthen (1942), Marc Faber (1946), and René-Pierre Quentin (1943).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Robert Emden ranks 9. Before him are Rudolf Wolf (1816), Paul Wild (1925), Didier Queloz (1966), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), and Robert Julius Trumpler (1886).

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