Reinhold Furth

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 is also remembered for his 1934 theory that stars are composed of antiparticles.

He edited the collected papers of Albert Einstein on the Theory of Brownian Movement and, informed by his expertise in that field, was the first to interpret the "formal analogy between the differential equations for the probability distribution of the position of a mechanical system according to classical statistics, and those according to quantum mechanics"; a precursor to the later development of stochastic quantum mechanics.

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