JOURNAL O f CHEMICAL EDUCATION
JOSEP GOUBEAU RALPH E. OESPER University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
JOSEF GOUBEAU, eminent physicc-inorganic chemist, was born a t Augsburg, Germany, on March 31, 1901. He wae trained a t the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1926. The dissertation on fundamental atomic weights was supervised by Otto Honigschmid,' who kept him on as assistant until 1928. After a year a t the University of Freiburg under E. Zintl, Dr. Goubeau in 1929 became assistant to L. Birchenbach a t the Bergakademie in Clausthal. Because of the political circumstances, he did not habilitate as Privatdozent in inorganic and analytical chemistry until 1935. In 1937, Dr. Goubeau became chief assistant in the general chemistry laboratory a t Gob tingen, where Adolf Windausz was then head. Dr. Goubeau was advanced to a~sist~ant and associate pro. ' THISJOURNAL, 17,562 (1940). 'THISJOURNAL, 17, 453, 499 (1940).
fessor of inorganic and analytical chemistry in 1940 and 1943. At present he is head of the inorganic division a t Gottingen. During the formative period of his professional career, he concerned himself chiefly with atomic weight determinations, intermetallic compounds, and pseudohalogens. Since 1931, he has devoted mbch of his research activities to the Rarnan effect. In, addition to various molecular structures, he has especially investigated the analytical application of this effect and has established its usefulness by a wide variety of both qualitative and quantitative examples. He has also dealt with the chemistry of boron, beryllium, and silicon, particularly from the standpoint of molecular structure. As an acknowledged authority, he was invited to contribute the chapter "Raman spectral analysis" in Bottger's "Physikalische Methoden der analytischen Chemie."
