Robert Emden
Robert Emden | |
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| Born | Jacob Robert Emden 4 March 1862 St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Died | 8 October 1940 (aged 78) Zurich, Switzerland |
| Alma mater | University of Strasbourg |
| Known for | Lane–Emden equation |
| Children | 5 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysicist and Meteorologist |
| Institutions | Technical University of Munich Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| Thesis | On the Vapour Pressure of Salt Solutions (1887) |
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. It presents a mathematical model of the behaviour of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence of their own gravity, known as the Lane–Emden equation.