Josef Zemann

Josef Zemann ( born May 25, 1923 in Vienna) is an Austrian mineralogist and geologist.

Zemann studied mineralogy at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1946 at Felix Machatschki. 1951/52, he was with Martin J. Buerger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was Professor and Head of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Göttingen and in 1967 director of the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Vienna. In 1989 he retired.

Zemann is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (since 1984), Croatian, Polish and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1991 he was made an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society, and he is an honorary member of the Austrian Mineralogical Society. In 1984 he was awarded the Erwin Schrödinger Prize.

The mineral Zemannit is named after him.