| Code | DS/UK/60 |
| Dates | 28/09/1854-28/01/1944 |
| Person Name | Cohn; Emil (28/09/1854-28/01/1944); Prof. Dr. |
| Surname | Cohn |
| Forenames | Emil |
| Title | Prof. Dr. |
| Activity | Professor of Physics; assistant at Strasbourg University (1881 to 1884); assistant professor (1884 to 1918) extraordinary Professor (1918). Professor at Rostock University (1919-20); at Freiburg University 1920-1935. |
| Relationships | married to Marie Cohn, née Goldschmidt. |
| History | older brother of Carl Cohn; studied at Leipzig [law] and Heidelberg and Strasbourg [physics]; doctorate in Strasbourg 1879; family was expelled from [French] Strasbourg in 1918 and settled in Rostock. Retirement 1935-39 in Heidelberg, then emigration to Switzerland. |
| Source | Fritz Emde (1947). "Nachruf auf Emil Cohn". Archiv der Elektrischen Übertragung 1 (1-2): pp. 81–3; <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cohn> [accessed 14/06/2010]. |
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