Johann Böhm

Johann Böhm (20 January 1895 – 27 November 1952) was a German Bohemian chemist who focused on photochemistry and radiography. The aluminum-containing mineral boehmite (or böhmite) was named after him.[1]

For other people called Johann Böhm, see Johann Böhm (disambiguation)
Johann Böhm
Born(1895-01-20)20 January 1895
Budweis, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died27 November 1952(1952-11-27) (aged 57)
Prague, Czech Republic
CitizenshipCzechoslovakian
Alma materGerman Polytechnic University in Prague
Known forBoehmite
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsBerlin, Freiburg, Prague, Rybitví

Böhm studied at the German Polytechnic University in Prague and then worked with Fritz Haber in Berlin where he re-designed and considerably improved the Weissenberg x-ray goniometer.[2] In 1926 George de Hevesy, then a professor at the University of Freiburg, invited Böhm to co-operate with him on a series of experiments in spectrographic analysis. Afterwards Böhm worked at Freiburg University as an assistant and later as an associate professor.[3] From October 1935[3] he was a professor of physical chemistry at the German University in Prague. After the war Böhm was allowed to remain in the country and become again a citizen of Czechoslovakia because he had been active in the anti-Nazi movement supporting Czech scientists such as Jaroslav Heyrovský, but was not permitted to continue his academic career. He worked in an industrial research institute in Rybitví (Výzkumný ústav organických syntéz).[4] A few days before his death he was appointed Corresponding Member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

He died in Prague on 27 November 1952.

References
  1. Wiley Online Library
  2. Johannes Böhm, Das Weissenbergsche Röntgengoniometer. In: Zeitschrift für Physik 39 (1926) pp. 557–561.
    Martin J. Buerger (MIT): Archived 2015-02-11 at the Wayback Machine Karl Weissenberg and the development of X-ray crystallography, part 4: Further Developments of Weissenberg’s Method. (PDF)
  3. L. Dobiášová: Structure of microworld - the world seen by invisible rays . Struktura mikrosvěta – Svět viděný nedviditelnými paprsky. Abstract. In: Materials Structure, vol. 7, No. 1 (2000)], p. 29
    University calendar of Freiburg University, summer term 1935
  4. Web of Science v České republice Archived 2004-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
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