Career
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).