Command of Light Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 238)

George Kean Sweetnam

ISBN 10: 0871692384 / ISBN 13: 9780871692382

Published by American Philosophical Society, 2000

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233 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Command of Light Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 238)
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871692384
• ISBN 13: 9780871692382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms

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Synopsis

Henry Rowland (1848-1901) was one of the most important figures in the founding of modern physics in the U.S. A principal founder and first pres. of the Amer. Physical Soc., he is best known for his invention of the concave spectral grating for which he won a gold medal and grand prize at the 1890 Paris Exposition. A grad. of Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. in civil engineering, Rowland was prof. of physics at Johns Hopkins Univ., where he had the principal part in forming the first school of Amer. physicists to be professionally trained in the U.S. In this vol., Sweetnam, using Rowland’s papers and those of his colleagues and students, has written the first scholarly exposition of Rowland’s work.