Josef Zemann

Josef Zemann
Born	25 May 1923 Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Institutions	University of Göttingen
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Doctoral advisor	Felix Machatschki

Josef Zemann (May 25, 1923 – ) is an Austrian mineralogist and geologist.

Life and work

Zemann was born in 1923 in Vienna and studied mineralogy at the University of Vienna where he received his PhD for work with Felix Machatschki in 1946. Zemann worked with Martin J. Buerger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951 and 1952. He became director of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the University of Göttingen. From 1967 until his retirement in 1989 he was head of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the University of Vienna.^[1]

Honours

The mineral Zemannite Mg_0.5ZnFe³⁺[TeO₃]₃ • 4.5 H₂O was named after him in the 1960s.^[2]

References

1. Tillmanns, Ekkehart (1993). "Dedication". Mineralogy and Petrology 48 (2-4): 85. doi:10.1007/BF01163088.
2. Matzat, E.; Wiliams, SJ (1969). "Zemannite, a new tellurite mineral from Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico" (PDF). Canadian Mineralogist 10: 139–140.