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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 26,695 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Emden is the 472nd most popular astronomer (down from 409th in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 419th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Robert Emden ranks 472 out of 531Before him are Carolyn Porco, Royal Harwood Frost, Edward S. Holden, DeLisle Stewart, Fyodor Bredikhin, and Bohdan Paczyński. After him are Ernest Leonard Johnson, Matvey Gusev, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Hans-Emil Schuster, Charles Augustus Young, and Kaoru Ikeya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Robert Emden ranks 129Before him are Adolf Bartels, Wilhelm Weinberg, Semyon Nadson, Antoni Lange, Billy Hughes, and Andrew Fisher. After him are Gustav von Seyffertitz, Robert Reid, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Santeri Alkio, Hugo Erdmann, and Frank Weston Benson. Among people deceased in 1940, Robert Emden ranks 156Before him are Hendrik Marsman, Bob Glendenning, Gabriele Possanner, Leopold Skulski, Johan Anker, and Agnes von Krusenstjerna. After him are Dimitar Stanchov, Wilfred Lucas, Ervin Mészáros, Wilhelm Anderson, Kalliroi Parren, and Ole Lilloe-Olsen.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Robert Emden ranks 527 out of 876Before him are Robert Alt (1927), Alain Geiger (1960), Renée Colliard (1933), Pascal Zuberbühler (1971), Heinz Schiller (1930), and Jo Vonlanthen (1942). After him are Florian Cajori (1859), Hans Pulver (1902), Loris Kessel (1950), Toni Branca (1916), Ernst Stueckelberg (1905), and Georges de Rham (1903).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

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