| Authorised form of name | Rosenhain; Walter (1875 - 1934); metallurgist |
| Dates | 1875 - 1934 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany, Europe |
| Date of birth | 24 August 1875 |
| Place of death | Warrawee, Coombe Lane, Kingston Hill, Surrey, England |
| Date of death | 17/03/1934 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Putney Vale cemetery |
| Occupation | metallurgist |
| Research field | Metallurgy |
| Activity | Education:
BA (Camb), Research; BCE; DSc (Melbourne)
Career: His family emigrated to Australia to avoid him doing military service; moved to England as the holder of an 1851 Exhibition scholarship and entered St John's College, Cambridge, where he worked with Alfred Ewing (FRS 1887); studied and examined metals under Sir William Roberts-Austen at the Royal Mint (FRS 1875); appointed a scientific adviser to the glassworks of Chance Brothers & Co. at Smethwick, near Birmingham (1900); succeeded Harold Carpenter as superintendent of the metallurgy and metallurgical chemistry department of the National Physical Laboratory (1906-1931) which became one of the most important metallurgical research laboratories, and here he appointed the first female scientific staff members Marie Laura Violet Gayler and Isabel Hadfield (1915); naturalized in England (1914); retired (1931); died of cancer (1934).
Memberships:
President of the Institute of Metals (1928–30)
President of the Institute of the Optical Society
Awards/Medals:
Carnegie silver medal (1906)
Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel Institute (1930) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/05/1913 |
| Age at election | 38 |
| Proposer | Richard Owen; William Thomson; Benjamin Collins Brodie; John Percy; August Wilhelm von Hofmann; Frederick Guthrie; Robert Lowe; Alexander William Williamson; William Odling |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe; David Forbes; John Evans; Henry Clifton Sorby; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; Cromwell Fleetwood Varley; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Warington Wilkinson Smyth; John Tyndall; Robert Hunt |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Bakerian (jointly) 1899 |
| Relationships | Parents: Moritz Rosenhain, businessman, of Rosenberg, West Prussia, and Friederike, daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Yosman Fink, of Posen.
Spouse: Louisa, daughter of Louis Monash and sister of Sir John Monash, with whom Rosenhaim had corresponded since leaving Australia in 1897.
Children: Three daughters. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R61356
RCN R61354
RCN R61355
RCN 15791 |
| OtherInfo | Remembered for his work on light alloys, the mechanism of crystallisation, the mechanical deformation of metals, and the improvement of technical practice. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 353-359, plate, by Cecil Henry Desch |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/41025692 |
| Code | NA2214 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/19/779 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J H Agar Baugh | 16 December 1899 |
| EC/1913/14 | Rosenhain, Walter: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/19/284 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor James Alfred Ewing and W Rosenhain, [Fellows of the Royal Society] | 26 July 1899 |
| RR/15/51 | Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on the Bakerian lecture 'The crytalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain | July 1900 |
| RR/15/349 | Referee's report by Henry Alexander Miers, on a paper 'Effects of strain on the crystalline structure of lead' by J C W Humphrey | 13 June 1902 |
| RR/15/351 | Referee's report by Francis Henry Neville, on a paper 'Effects of strain on the crystalline structure of lead' by J C W Humphrey | 21 July 1902 |
| NLB/19/491 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited, 83 Cannon Street, E.C. | 14 October 1899 |
| NLB/21/326 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain, [Fellows of the Royal Society] | 1 November 1900 |
| NLB/19/782 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J H Agar Baugh | 18 December 1899 |
| NLB/24/812 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Walter Rosenhain, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 16 July 1902 |
| NLB/55/606 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 26 June 1918 |
| NLB/63/130 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 04 July 1922 |
| NLB/38/405 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to [Walter] Rosenhain, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 29 July 1908 |
| NLB/50/30 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Walter] Rosenhain, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 April 1914 |
| RR/20/28 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The preparation of eye-preserving glass for spectacles' by William Crookes | November 1913 |
| NLB/56/538 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS | 6 March 1919 |
| NLB/59/181 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 23 July 1920 |
| NLB/59/339 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 21 September 1920 |
| NLB/59/457 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 5 October 1920 |
| RR/14/151 | Referee's report by John Perry, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The crystalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain | nd [July 1899] |
| NLB/60/179 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 18 December 1920 |
| RR/18/179 | Referee's report by Charles Thomas Heycock, on a paper 'The constitution of the alloys of aluminium and zinc' by Walter Rosenhain and Sydney L Archbutt | May 1911 |
| NLB/60/201 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 22 December 1920 |
| RR/14/152 | Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The crystalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain | nd [July 1899] |
| NLB/60/430 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 3 February 1921 |
| RR/26/26 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The production of single crystals of aluminium and their tensile properties' by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter and Constance F Elam | [September 1921] |
| RR/35/100 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Alloys of iron and maganese of low carbon content' by Robert Abbott Hadfield | March 1927 |
| NLB/57/389 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to TE Pickles Esq, Publications Department; HM [His Majesty's] Stationery Office, Westminster, SW 1 | 30 October 1919 |
| NLB/62/328 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 27 January 1922 |
| NLB/65/607 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Sydney] Pitt Esq.; Armourers and Brasiers' Company, 81 Coleman Street, E.C.2. | 28 November 1923 |
| NLB/65/631 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 1 December 1923 |
| RR/39/50 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Sulphide colours on metallic copper' by F Hurn Constable | [July 1929] |
| NLB/65/34 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 16 July 1923 |
| NLB/65/498 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS | 8 November 1923 |
| NLB/65/349 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sydney Pitt Esq.; [Clerk to] The Armourers and Brasiers Company, 81 Coleman Street, E.C. | 18 October 1923 |
| NLB/65/579 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Members of the Armourers and Brasiers' Company Research Fellowship Committee (Sir [George Thomas] Beilby, Professor [Henry Cort Harold] Carpenter, Dr [Charles Thomas] Heycock, Dr [Walter] Rosenhain, Dr G. N. Pitt, Mr M. H. Young, Mr [Sydney] Pitt) | 23 November 1923 |
| NLB/66/877 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 1 August 1924 |
| NLB/67/691 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 14 February 1925 |
| NLB/66/583 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, FRS | 31 May 1924 |
| NLB/66/606 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Walter] Rosenahin [Rosenhain], FRS | 3 June 1924 |
| NLB/68/691 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Longmans, Green and Co.; 39 Paternoster Row, E.C.4. | 16 October 1925 |
| RR/15/350 | Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'Effects of strain on the crystalline structure of lead' by J C W Humphrey | 28 June 1902 |
| RR/18/178 | Referee's report by John Edward Stead, on a paper 'The constitution of the alloys of aluminium and zinc' by Walter Rosenhain and Sydney L Archbutt | May 1911 |
| RR/17/342 | Referee's report by Francis Henry Neville, on a paper 'Entectics research no 1 - alloys of lead and tin' by Walter Rosenhain and P A Tucker | July 1908 |
| RR/44/52 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The formation of superlattices in alloys of iron and aluminium' by Albert James Bradley and A H Jay | 4 January 1932 |
| RR/26/5 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'On the correlation of the chemical constitutions of "true steel" to their micrographic structures' by John Oliver Arnold | [February 1922] |
| RR/15/52 | Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on the Bakerian lecture 'The crytalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter Rosenhain | 19 July 1900 |
| NLB/72/285 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. Pitt Esq | 18 June 1929 |
| NLB/66/318 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh | 8 April 1924 |
| NLB/59 | New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 9 July 1920-2 December 1920 |
| RR/30/18 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The ternary alloy system aluminium–cadmium–zinc' by Norman Frederick Budgen | [April 1924] |
| RR/30/82 | Second referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Recent developments in tensile testing' by J V Howard and S L Smith | [September 1924] |
| RR/46/23 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Positive and negative creep of metals' by F C Lea | [September 1932] |
| RR/28/85 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Recrystallization and grain-growth in soft metals' by M Cook and Ulick Richardson Evans | [November 1923] |
| RR/45/88 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The theory of metallic corrosion in the light of quantitative measurements. Part VI.— The distribution of corrosion' by Guy Dunstan Bengough and F Wormwell | [December 1932] |
| RR/30/81 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Recent developments in tensile testing' by J V Howard and S L Smith | [July 1924] |
| RR/31/13 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The failure of sprial steel spring under repetition stresses' by F C Lea and J D Vaughan | [June 1924] |
| RR/46/82 | Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The energy absorbed in the cold working of metals' by Walter Rosenhain and V H Stott | [December 1932] |
| RR/46/92 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'The relationship between viscosity, elasticity and plastic strength of a soft material as illustrated by some mechanical properties of flour dough.—II' by Robert Kenworthy Schofield and George William Scott Blair | [November 1932] |
| RR/48/2 | Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'On the effect of the temperature of liquid hydrogen (-252.8° C.) On the tensile properties of forty-one specimens of metals comprising (a) pure iron 99.85%; (b) four carbon steels; (c) thirty alloy steels; (d) copper and nickel; (e) four non-ferrous alloy' by W J De Haas and Robert Abbott Hadfield | [May 1933] |