Oswald Helmuth Göhring, also known as Otto Göhring,[2] (1889 – c. 1915) was a German chemist who, with his teacher Kasimir Fajans, co-discovered the chemical element protactinium in 1913.
Protactinium was first identified in 1913 by Kasimir Fajans and Oswald Helmuth Göhring at the University of Karlsruhe.
The new element was named brevium due to the brief half-life of the isotope specific studied, Protactinium-234 (234 Pa).
Fajans and Göhring also worked to identify as many isotopes of the new element as possible, and also to publicize their discovery—a process that was hampered by the beginning of World War I.
Presumably he perished during the war; he is listed as the author of no further scientific articles or publications after 1915.