Prof Reinhold Heinrich (Henry) Furth FRSE (20 October 1893 – 17 July 1979) was a German-speaking physicist born in Prague, noted for his 1951 BAAS lecture Physics and Social Equilibrium.
He was born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) on 20 October 1893 and was educated there at the Austrian State Gymnasium.
He then attended the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1916.
Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War he moved to Scotland, becoming a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
His proposers were Max Born, Robert Schlapp, Ivor Etherington, and James Pickering Kendall.