Margot Becke-Goehring

Margot Becke-Goehring
Picture showing Margot Becke-Goehring (fair use only)
Born
Goehring

10 June 1914
Allenstein
Died14 November 2009
Heidelberg
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Halle
Known forFirst female rector of a university in West Germany and research on phosphorus-nitrogen and sulfur-nitrogen compounds
SpouseFriedrich Becke
AwardsAlfred Stock Memorial Prize (1961)

Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities,

Honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart,

Gmelin-Beilsteil Memorial Coin
Scientific career
Doctoral studentsLieselotte Feikes, Rolf Appel

Margot Becke-Goehring (born 10 June 1914 in Allenstein; died 14 November 2009 in Heidelberg[1]) was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and she was the first female rector of a university in West Germany - the Heidelberg University.[2][3][4] She was also the director of the Gmelin Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Max Planck Society that edited the Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie. She studied Chemistry in Halle (Saale) and Munich, and she finished her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Halle. For her research on the chemistry of main-group elements, she was awarded Alfred Stock Memorial Prize.[5][6] One of her most notable contributions to inorganic chemistry was her work on the synthesis and structure of poly(sulfur nitride), which was later discovered to be the first non-metallic superconductor.[7][8] For her success in editing the Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, she received the Gmelin-Beilstein memorial coin.[2]

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  6. ^ "Wer ist's? — Margot Becke-Goehring". Nachrichten aus Chemie und Technik (in German). 9 (19): 295. 1961. doi:10.1002/nadc.19610091903. ISSN 1868-0054.
  7. ^ Goehring, Margot (1956). "Sulphur nitride and its derivatives". Quarterly Reviews, Chemical Society. 10 (4): 437. doi:10.1039/qr9561000437. ISSN 0009-2681.
  8. ^ Kronick, Paul L.; Kaye, Howard; Chapman, Ernest F.; Mainthia, Shashikant B.; Labes, Mortimer M. (1962-04-15). "Electronic Properties of Polysulfur Nitride". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 36 (8): 2235–2237. Bibcode:1962JChPh..36.2235K. doi:10.1063/1.1732868. ISSN 0021-9606.