Arthur Rosenheim (17 August 1865 – 21 March 1942) was a German chemist. His main work was on

heteropolymetalate In chemistry, the heteropolymetalates are a subset of the polyoxometalates, which consist of three or more transition metal oxyanions linked together by shared oxygen atoms to form a closed 3-dimensional molecular framework. In contrast to isop ...

, colloids and complex ion chemistry. Rosenheim was born in New York to banker William and his wife Maria Hallgarten. He grew up in Berlin from 1873 and graduated from the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in 1884. He went to the University of Heidelberg and later the Universities at Munich and Berlin. He studied under Carl Rammelsberg, receiving a doctorate in 1888 with a dissertation on vanadium tungstic acid. After some studies on electrochemistry at Munich he became an assistant at the Chemical Institute in Berlin. He then founded a private laboratory with Carl Friedheim, and later worked with Richard Joseph Meyer. Other workers at the lab included the pioneering woman chemist

Elsa Neumann Elsa Neumann (23 August 1872 – 23 July 1902) was a German physicist. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in physics from the University of Berlin, in 1899. Early life and education Elsa was the daughter of Maximilian and Anna née Meye ...

. In 1906 he became an associate professor of physical chemistry at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

. In 1912 he patented a process for the manufacture of hypophosphoric acid. In 1921 he became a full professor and also served as a vice president of the

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. He was dismissed from the university and also on the urging of Heinrich Hörlein from the Chemical Society in 1933 due to his Jewish origin. A cousin, Friedrich Hallgarten, also became a chemist. His students included Otto Liebknecht, Gerhart Jander, and their main work was on heteropolymetalates.

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