Robert Emden

Robert Emden ( born March 4, 1862 in St. Gallen, † October 8, 1940 in Zurich ) was a Swiss physicist, astrophysicist and meteorologist.

1907 Emden became a professor of physics and meteorology at the Technical University of Munich.

Emden turned his research on the expansion and compression of gas balls also depends on the stellar structure. Here his work gas spheres ( 1907) was groundbreaking in which he applied first the results of thermodynamics consistently on the study of the internal structure of stars.

Works

  • Gas spheres: applications of the mechanical theory of heat on cosmological and meteorological problems. Leipzig; Berlin: Teubner, in 1907.
  • Basics of balloon guide. Leipzig; Berlin: Teubner, 1910.
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