Henry Augustus Rowland

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Henry Augustus Rowland FRS HFRSE was an American physicist and educator. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered primarily for the high quality of the diffraction gratings he made and for the work he did with them on the solar spectrum.

Published Works

• Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wavelengths I
• On the Motion of a Perfect Incompressible Fluid When no Solid Bodies are Present
• On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, with Subsidiary Researches on the Variation of the Mercurial from the Air Thermometer, and on the Variation of the Specific Heat of Water
• On the General Equations of Electro-Magnetic Action, with Application to a New Theory of Magnetic Attractions, and to the Theory of the Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarization of Light
• Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wavelengths II
• Arc-Spectra of Zirconium and Lanthanum
• On a Table of Standard Wave Lengths of the Spectral Lines
• Illustration of resonances and actions of a similar nature
• Sympathetic vibration
• Modern Theories as to Electricity
The Physical Laboratory in Modern Education
The Highest Aim of the Physicist
Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wavelengths III
Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wavelengths IV
Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wavelengths V
Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wave-Lengths XIV.
Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wave-Lengths XV.
Arc-Spectrum of Vanadium
On Modern Views with Respect to Electric Currents
The Rontgen Ray, and its Relation to Physics
Notes on Magnetic Distribution
Electromagnetic Waves and Oscillations at the Surface of Conductors
On the General Equations of Electro-Magnetic Action with Application to a New Theory of Magnetic Attractions, and to the Theory of the Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarization of Light [Continued]
“Screw,” Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 21, 9th edition (1875–1889)
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Schools

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Private research university in Troy, New York, United States

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Johns Hopkins University

University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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