Joseph Joshua Weiss (30 August 1905 – 9 April 1972)[1] was a Jewish-Austrian[2] chemist and Professor at the Newcastle University.
He left his post two years later to become an assistant to the German chemist Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Elektrochemistry in Berlin.
He later moved to University College London, where he got his PhD in 1935 from Prof Frederick George Donnan.
[3] in 1937 he started teaching at the King's College in Durham, which later became Newcastle University.
In the thirties, Weiss published several of his ideas on electron transfer processes in the mechanisms of thermal and photochemical reactions in solution.