Josef Houben, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Houben

German chemist

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1875

Place of Birth: Waldfeucht, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1940

Profession: chemist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (born 27 October 1875 in Waldfeucht (Rheinland) Germany, died 28 June 1940 in Tübingen) was a German chemist.
He made achievements within ketone synthesis, terpenes, and camphor studies.
After being wounded several times on the front lines in World War I, Houben was made head of the war laboratory.
He improved the Hoesch reaction which is now normally called Houben-Hoesch reaction.
Houben organized and made a major rework of the book Methods of Organic Chemistry which is now referred to as Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry.