Emanuel Goldberg was a chemist, made one of the earliest quantitative investigations of the turbidity of photographic emulsions, reported in 1912.
Background
Emanuel Goldberg was born on August 31, 1881 in Moscow City, Russian Federation. He was the son of Grigorii Ignat’evich Goldberg, a distinguished Colonel (Polkovnik) in the Tsar’s military medical corps and his wife Olga Moiseevna Grodsenka.
Education
Emanuel Goldberg studied Chemistry at the University of Moscow and at several German universities, and remained in Germany after 1904 to avoid antisemitism in Russia.
In 1906 Emanuel Goldberg received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipzig for research at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, led by Wilhelm Ostwald on the kinetics of photochemical reactions. After a year as assistant to Adolf Miethe in the Photochemistry Laboratory at the Technical University in Charlottenburg, Berlin, he became head of the photographic department of the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookcraft, in Leipzig from 1907 to 1917.
Career
In 1917 Emanuel Goldberg was recruited by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung to become a director of its photographic products subsidiary Ica (Internationale Camera Aktien Gesellschaft)[1] in Dresden where he introduced the spring-driven Kinamo movie camera. In 1926 a "Fusion" of four leading photographic firms (Contessa, Ernemann, Ica and Goerz) formed Zeiss Ikon under Goldberg’s leadership until he was kidnapped by Nazis in 1933 and fled to Paris. After four years working for Zeiss subsidiaries in France, Emanuel Goldberg moved to Palestine in 1937 where he established a laboratory, later called Goldberg Instruments, which became the Electro-Optical Industries ("El-Op") in Rehovot.
Emanuel Goldberg retired in 1960 but continued his research and died in Tel Aviv on 13 September 1970.
Achievements
Connections
On 28 June 1907 Emanuel Goldberg married Sophie Posniak (28 August 1886 - 10 December 1968). They had a son, Herbert Goldberg (b. 20 November 1914) and a daughter Renate Eva, who later changed her name to Chava (b. 19 September 1922). Chava married Mordechai Gichon in 1948.