Johann Böhm
{{Short description|German Bohemian chemist (1895–1952)}}
{{Hatnote|For other people called Johann Böhm, see Johann Böhm (disambiguation)}}
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| workplaces = Berlin, Freiburg, Prague, Rybitví
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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.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zaac.19251490114/abstract Wiley Online Library]
Biography
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.Johannes Böhm, Das Weissenbergsche Röntgengoniometer. In: Zeitschrift für Physik 39 (1926) pp. 557–561.
[http://weissenberg.bsr.org.uk/2/x-ray%20crystallography.htm Martin J. Buerger (MIT):] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211235323/http://weissenberg.bsr.org.uk/2/x-ray%20crystallography.htm |date=2015-02-11 }} Karl Weissenberg and the development of X-ray crystallography, part 4: Further Developments of Weissenberg’s Method. (PDF) 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.[http://www.xray.cz/ms/bul2000-1/nm1.pdf 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
[http://freimore.uni-freiburg.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/DocPortal_derivate_00013540/SS_1935.pdf;jsessionid=72afaq7le0n?hosts= University calendar] of Freiburg University, summer term 1935 From October 1935 he was a professor of physical chemistry at the German University in Prague. After World War II 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).[http://www.uochb.cas.cz/Bulletin/bulletin314/bulletin314.html Web of Science v České republice] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041228234310/http://www.uochb.cas.cz/Bulletin/bulletin314/bulletin314.html |date=2004-12-28}} 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.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041228234310/http://www.uochb.cas.cz/Bulletin/bulletin314/bulletin314.html Contains short biography of Böhm (in Czech)]
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