Warburg, Emil

K. Kitahara, K. Seki and S. Suzuki, in Proceedings of the Emil-Warburg Symposium, Dynamical processes in condensed molecular systems , eds, A. Blu-men, J. Klafter and D. Haarer, World Scientific(1990). 

Warburg, Otto Heinrich (1883-1970) German Biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg was born on October 8, 1883, in Freiburg, Baden, to physicist Emil Warburg. He studied chemistry under Emil Fischer and received his doctor of chemistry from the University of Berlin in 1906, and a doctor of medicine from the University of Heidelberg in 1911. 

G. N. R. Tripathi, R. H. Schuler and L. Qin, In Time-Resolved Vibr. Spectrosc., Proc. Int. Conf. Emil-Warburg Symp., A. Lauberau and M. Stockberger (eds). Springer, Vol. Proc. Phys. 4, 1985, pp 183. 

Warburg, Otto Heinrich (1883-1970) Son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. In 1918 he was appointed professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem. 

James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) English physicist and brewer Manchester, UK. t Emil Gabriel Warburg (1846-1931) German physical chemist Berlin, Germany. 

Emil Warburg was the president of the advanced research institute, the Physical-Technisches Anstalt in Berlin, from 1905 to 1922 and among those that were behind the call of Einstein to a professorship in Berlin. He was the father of Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, who brought a strong quantitative aspect in photobiology see Sect. 4.6. 

Consideration of the energy involved in the process and of the energy of the quantum absorbed by chlorophyll showed that interaction with at least three excited molecules was required for each molecule of CO2 formed [186]. The investigations by Emil Warburg, fostered also by the formulation of the Einstein equivalence law (1905 in the first formulation see Chap. 2), and by his son Otto gave a quantitative framework to photosynthesis substituting well-defined chemical measurements to qualitative observations [188]. 

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