Education
Böhm studied at the German Polytechnic University in Prague and then worked with Fritz Haber in Berlin where he re-designed and considerably improved the Weissenberg x-ray goniometer.
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Johann Bohm
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The aluminum-containing mineral boehmite (or böhmite) was named after him. In 1926 George de Hevesy, then a professor at the University of Freiburg, invited Böhm to co-operate with him on a series of experiments in spectrographic analysis. Afterwards Böhm worked at Freiburg University as an assistant and later as an associate professor
From October 1935 he was a professor of physical chemistry at the German University in Prague.
After the war Böhm was allowed to remain in the country and become again a citizen of Czechoslovakia because he had been active in the anti-Nazi movement supporting Czechoslovakian scientists such as Jaroslav Heyrovský, but was not permitted to continue his academic career. He worked in an industrial research institute in Rybitví (Výzkumný ústav organických syntéz).
He died in Prague on November 27, 1952.
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A few days before his death he was appointed Corresponding Member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
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