Margot Becke Goehring

Margot Becke-Goehring (born 10 June 1914 in Allenstein; died 14 November 2009 was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg in chemistry. She was a 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).