Died 1901-04-16.
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Henry Augustus Rowland
Henry Augustus Rowland 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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science · American physicist (1848–1901) · physicist · university teacher · also Henry Augustus Rowland, Henry A. Rowland, Rowland
Born 27 November 1848 · Died 16 April 1901 · Q505197
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1896· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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1895· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1895).
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1890· 2 entries
Won Henry Draper Medal (1890).
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For his contributions to astrophysics, he was elected to honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, in 1894
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1889· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1889).
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1883· 2 entries
Awarded Rumford Prize (1883).
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An important document for the understanding of the relationship between science in university and in commercial contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
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1882· 1 entry
Before the Physical Society of London, Rowland gave a description of the diffraction gratings, with which his name is specially associated, and which have been of enormous advantage to astronomical spectroscopy
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1876· 1 entry
Became the first occupant of the chair of physics at Johns Hopkins University, a position which he retained until his death in Baltimore on April 16, 1901
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1848· 1 entry
Born 1848-11-27.
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