Margot Becke-Goehring
German chemist

Margot Becke-Goehring

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German chemist
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10 June 1914(Olsztyn)
Death:
14 November 2009(Heidelberg)
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Margot Becke-Goehring (born 10 June 1914 in Allenstein; died 14 November 2009 was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg in chemistry. She was rare example of a female professor of chemistry in Germany in the middle of the 20th Century.
Initially publishing under the name Goehring and later Becke-Goehring, she researched the chemistry of the main-group elements, especially phosphorus-nitrogen and sulfur-nitrogen compounds. Her work on tetrasulfur tetranitride (S4N4) started decades of research on this unusual and highly reactive inorganic heterocycle. She discovered heptasulfur imide (S7NH).

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She received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize in 1961.