Henry Brose

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Henry Herman Leopold Adolph Brose (September 15, 1890 - June, 1965) was an Australian physicist. He attended South Australian private school Prince Alfred College and graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1909 with a B.Sc.. For several years Brose taught French at Prince Alfred College, and in 1913 was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship of South Australia.

After meeting Albert Einstein while interned as a civilian prisoner in Germany during World War I, Brose became interested in the Theory of Relativity. He was awarded a Ph.D. in the area of the Physicsof electrons in oxygen at Oxford University in 1925, under John Sealy Edward Townsend, and then went on to hold a number of academic positions including Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sydney and Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham. From 1920 and 1936 he worked at translating various physics texts from German into English. Brose later went on to work in cancer research, holding positions as a physicist, a pathologist and a biochemist.

Brose made an enormous contribution to the scientific world of his time in both Australia and across the world, as indicated by his vast collection of Manuscripts still archived in the University of Adelaide.^[1].