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Robert Emden
1862 - 1940
Robert Emden, (born March 4, 1862, St. Gallen, Switz.—died Oct. 8, 1940, Zürich), physicist and astrophysicist who developed a theory of expansion and compression of gas spheres and applied it to stellar structure.
The crater Emden on the Moon is named after him. The Lane-Emden equation is named for him and Jonathan Homer Lane.
The crater Emden on the Moon is named after him. The Lane-Emden equation is named for him and Jonathan Homer Lane.
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"Robert Emden." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 18 Sep. 2014. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/185703/Robert-Emden>.