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Brose, Henry Herman Leopold Adolph (1890 - 1965)

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Biophysicist

Born: 15 September 1890 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Died: June 1965 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Henry Herman L. A. Brose held a variety of academic positions before becoming a consulting biophysicist in Sydney 1939-65. Between 1920 and 1936 he translated a number of German physics texts into English.

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Chronology
1909 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide
1911 - 1912 French Teacher at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide
1913 Rhodes Scholar for South Australia
1914 - 1919 Civilian prisoner in Germany
1919 Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) completed at the University of Oxford, UK
1925 Doctor of Philosophy (Dphil) completed at the University of Oxford
1926 Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sydney
1927 - 1931 Assistant Professor of Physics at University College in Nottingham, UK
1931 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Adelaide
1931 - 1936 Professor of Physics at University College Nottingham
1936 - 1938 Research Scientist for the Cancer Research Committee at the University of Sydney
c. 1939 - c. 1965 Australian Agent for Bioglan Laboratories Ltd., UK
1939 - 1965 Consulting Biophysicist in Sydney
1940 - 1943 Interned in New South Wales and Victoria

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'Brose, Henry Leopold Adolf', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000267p.htm. [ Details ]

Smith, Ailie, Henry Herman Leopold Adolph Brose Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/bros/bros.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 6 December 2006

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