Josef Goubeau (31 March 1901 in Augsburg, Germany – 18 October 1990 in Stuttgart) was a German chemist.
Life and work
Goubeau studied chemistry at the University of Munich starting from 1921 and attained a doctorate there 1926 on the atomic weight regulation of the potassiumin the group of Otto Hönigschmid under the supervision of Eduard Zintl.[1] Subsequently, he worked at the University of Freiburg, the mountain academy Clausthal-Zellerfeld, where he made his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1935 on the Raman effect in analytical chemistry.[1] Starting from 1940 he became a university teacher at the University of Göttingen, and since 1951 professor at the technical University of Stuttgart.[1] His focus of activity was the inorganic synthetic chemistry and spectroscopy of compounds of boron, silicon and phosphorus.[1] Most important was his fundamental work about vibrational spectroscopy and to force constants as measure of the strength of chemical bonds.[1][2]
Honours
- Doctor HC of the Universities of Clausthal and Munich[1]
- Alfred Stock Memorial Prize of the Society of German Chemists[1]
- Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[2]