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Robert Emden

Swiss astrophysicist (1862-1940)

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Lived 1862–1940, aged 78Switzerland
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    1862–1940
    Aged 78
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Updated 2026-06-20

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.

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