Peter Pringsheim, best known as professor of physics at the University of Berlin, has an unusual connection with Australia. His attendance at the 1914 conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was held in Melbourne, coincided with the outbreak of World War 1, and he was interned as an enemy alien at the Trial Bay Internment Camp in New South Wales from October 1914 until July 1919. However, with the support of key Australian and New Zealand scientists, Pringsheim used his time at Trial Bay to write a scientific paper on fluorescence and phosphorescence which established him as a world authority on this branch of atomic physics. On his return to Berlin, he was promoted to professor and it seemed that nothing could now stand in the way of his career. In a grim twist of fate, however, political developments in Germany in the 1930s then forced him into exile in Belgium and the United States.

彼得·普林斯海姆 (Peter Pringsheim) 是柏林大学最著名的物理学教授，他与澳大利亚有着不寻常的联系。 1914 年，他出席了在墨尔本举行的英国科学促进会会议，恰逢第一次世界大战爆发，他从 1914 年起作为敌方外国人被关押在新南威尔士州的审判湾拘留营。 1914 年 10 月至 1919 年 7 月。然而，在澳大利亚和新西兰主要科学家的支持下，普林斯海姆利用在试验湾的时间撰写了一篇关于荧光和磷光的科学论文，使他成为原子物理学这一分支的世界权威。返回柏林后，他被提升为教授，似乎没有什么可以阻碍他的职业生涯了。然而命运严峻，20 世纪 30 年代德国的政治事态发展迫使他流亡比利时和美国。