# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-emden
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:00:55.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-emden"
name: "Robert Emden"
slug: "robert-emden"
description: "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 gaseous stellar objects under the influence of their own gravity, known as the Lane–Emden equation."
tagline: "Swiss astrophysicist (1862-1940)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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birthDate: "1862-03-04"
deathDate: "1940-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump