Johann Böhm
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Johann Böhm (January 20, 1895, České Budějovice - November 27, 1952, Prague) was a Czech German chemist.
Böhm studied at German polytechnic in Prague, worked with Fritz Haber in Berlin, then at university in Freiberg. Since 1934 professor of physical chemistry at the polytechnic in Prague. After the war he kept citizenship of Czechoslovakia (because he was active in anti-Nazi movement) and worked in research institute in Rybitví (Výzkumný ústav organických syntéz). He specialised on photochemistry and radiography.
Aluminium containing mineral boehmite is named after him.
