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Henry Augustus Rowland

1848 - 1901

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Augustus Rowland is the 597th most popular physicist (up from 603rd in 2019), the 6,168th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,736th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 597 out of 851. Before him are Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, John D. Barrow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, and Vladimir Veksler. After him are Tullio Regge, William Edward Ayrton, Gustav Mie, Shoichi Sakata, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, and Anatoly Alexandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 87. Before him are Hubertine Auclert, Enrico Forlanini, Kamal-ol-molk, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Gunnar Knudsen, and Margaret Lindsay Huggins. After him are Francis Davis Millet, Princess Frederica of Hanover, Ioan Slavici, Jørgen Løvland, Adolf Lang, and Nazım Pasha. Among people deceased in 1901, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 69. Before him are Václav Brožík, Émile Fisseux, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Giulio Bizzozero, and Kate Greenaway. After him are Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Mariano Ignacio Prado, Julius Zeyer, Domenico Morelli, and Dimitar Grekov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 6,169 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Lamb (1887), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), Anna Harrison (1775), Mark Donohue (1937), William Cohen (1940), and Donovan Scott (1947). After him are Randy Meisner (1946), Haddon Sundblom (1899), Marty Walsh (1967), Alan Cooper (1952), L. L. Langstroth (1810), and Jenette Goldstein (1960).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 126. Before him are Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Norman Holter (1914), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Frank J. Tipler (1947), and Evelyn Fox Keller (1936). After him are Robert Mills (1927), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Charles Kittel (1916), Robert R. Wilson (1914), and James Hansen (1941).

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