Josef Zemann
Appearance
Josef Zemann | |
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Born | |
Died | 16 October 2022 | (aged 99)
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Göttingen |
Doctoral advisor | Felix Machatschki |
Josef Zemann (25 May 1923 – 16 October 2022) was an Austrian mineralogist and geologist.
Life and work
[edit]Zemann was born on 25 May 1923 in Vienna. He studied mineralogy at the University of Vienna where he received his PhD for work with Felix Machatschki in 1946. Zemann worked with Martin J. Buerger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951 and 1952. He became director of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the University of Göttingen. From 1967 until his retirement in 1989 he was head of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the University of Vienna.[1]
Zemann died on 16 October 2022, at the age of 99.[2]
Honours
[edit]The mineral Zemannite Mg0.5ZnFe3+[TeO3]3 • 4.5 H2O was named after him in the 1960s.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Tillmanns, Ekkehart (1993). "Dedication". Mineralogy and Petrology. 48 (2–4): 85–86. Bibcode:1993MinPe..48...85T. doi:10.1007/BF01163088.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Josef Zemann (1923–2022)". Universität Wien. 24 October 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ Matzat, E.; Wiliams, SJ (1969). "Zemannite, a new tellurite mineral from Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico" (PDF). Canadian Mineralogist. 10: 139–140.
Categories:
- 1923 births
- 2022 deaths
- Austrian mineralogists
- Academic staff of the University of Vienna
- Austrian expatriates in the United States
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff
- Austrian expatriates in Germany
- 20th-century Austrian geologists
- Scientists from Vienna
- Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Polish Academy of Learning
- Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
- Austrian scientist stubs
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