Henry Augustus Rowland

Henry Augustus Rowland
Born(1848-11-27)November 27, 1848
DiedApril 16, 1901(1901-04-16) (aged 52)
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Known forDiffraction grating
Rowland circle
Rowland ring
AwardsRumford Prize (1883)
Henry Draper Medal (1890)
Matteucci Medal (1895)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Wooster
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Academic advisorsHermann von Helmholtz
Doctoral studentsJoseph Sweetman Ames
Louis Bell
Edwin Hall
William Jackson Humphreys
Charles Elwood Mendenhall
Harry Fielding Reid
Albert Francis Zahm
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Henry Augustus Rowland (November 27, 1848 – April 16, 1901) was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins educator. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered for the high quality of the diffraction gratings he made and for the work he did with them on the solar spectrum.


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