Person Rosenhain; Walter (1875 - 1934); metallurgist Rosenhain Walter metallurgist 1875 - 1934 Australian Male Berlin, Germany, Europe 24 August 1875 18750824 Warrawee, Coombe Lane, Kingston Hill, Surrey, England 17/03/1934 19340317 Burial: Putney Vale cemetery

metallurgist Metallurgy 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) 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. Remembered for his work on light alloys, the mechanism of crystallisation, the mechanical deformation of metals, and the improvement of technical practice. Lectures: Bakerian (jointly) 1899 Fellow 01/05/1913 38 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 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1934.0020 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Rosenhain%2C+Walter RCN R61356 RCN R61354 RCN R61355 RCN 15791 24 Aug 1875 - 17 Mar 1934 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 13/03/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA2214 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 08/09/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/41025692 548005ee-9a9d-45cb-ba81-eb8c21d6024b