# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-emil-alexander-back
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:37:02.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-emil-alexander-back"
name: "Ernst Emil Alexander Back"
slug: "ernst-emil-alexander-back"
description: "Ernst Emil Alexander Back was a German physicist, born in Freiburg. He attended school in Strasbourg until 1900, and from 1902 until 1906 studied law in Strasbourg, Munich, and Berlin. He then worked in the legal profession in Alsace-Lorraine until 1909, afterwards taking leave to study physics in Tübingen. He retired from the legal profession in 1912, and earned his Ph.D. in 1913. His thesis, titled Zur Prestonschen Regel, was on the subject of what would later be called the Paschen-Back effect, and was named after Back and Friedrich Paschen."
tagline: "German physicist (1881–1959)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1881-10-21"
deathDate: "1959-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump