Eduard Rubin

Eduard Alexander Rubin (17 July 1846 – 6 July 1920) was a Swiss mechanical engineer and artillery officer. Rubin has been credited with the development of the full metal jacket bullet in 1882. Rubin developed the 7.5×55mm Swiss cartridge, the Schmidt-Rubin rifle, the Rubin-Fornerod ignition mechanism and the use of TNT and ammonium nitrate to replace gunpowder in artillery shells. Rubin's fully copper clad bullets were also the inspiration for the full metal jacket bullets introduced in 1886 for the Lebel rifle.

Biography Rubin was born in Thun on 17 July 1846, the son of Carl Rubin, a mechanic, and Maria Bader. He studied engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic from 1866 to 1868 and at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic, where he graduated in 1869. However, German Oberstleutnant Julius Emil Bode developed earlier jacketed bullet designs approximately six years earlier in 1876 and produced them in Karlsruhe. He died in Thun on 6 July 1920, aged 73.

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