Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (died 1940)

Robert Emden

Swiss Astrophysicist and Meteorologist (1862–1940)

Jacob Robert Emden was a Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist. He is best known for his book, Gaskugeln: Anwendungen der mechanischen Wärmetheorie auf kosmologische und meteorologische probleme, published in 1907. It presents a mathematical model of the behaviour of polytropic…