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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Augustus Rowland has received more than 95,119 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Henry Augustus Rowland is the 603rd most popular physicist (down from 592nd in 2019), the 5,737th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,978th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 603 out of 851. Before him are Seth Neddermeyer, Bruno Zumino, Toshiko Yuasa, Heinrich Kayser, Alfred Kleiner, and Robert H. Dicke. After him are Wilhelm Hisinger, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Robert Mills, Marcel Brillouin, Burkhard Heim, and Bert Bolin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 91. Before him are Enrico Forlanini, Otto von Emmich, Surendranath Banerjee, Alexander Kazbegi, Hubert Parry, and Princess Frederica of Hanover. After him are Gustav Fischer, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Oskar Lenz, Gunnar Knudsen, William Frederick Denning, and Adolf Lang. Among people deceased in 1901, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 63. Before him are Václav Brožík, Alfred Tysoe, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Julius Zeyer, and Mariano Ignacio Prado. After him are Henry Peach Robinson, Giulio Bizzozero, Domenico Morelli, Juan Manuel Blanes, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, and Artur Hazelius.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 5,737 out of 20,380. Before him are Helen Johns (1914), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Lou Thesz (1916), Joanna Moore (1934), Raymond Cruz (1961), and Squanto (1585). After him are Jorma Kaukonen (1940), Edward M. House (1858), Anita Stewart (1895), Ivanka Trump (1981), Terry Bozzio (1950), and Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Henry Augustus Rowland ranks 122. Before him are William D. Coolidge (1873), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Clyde Cowan (1919), Joan Feynman (1927), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), and Robert H. Dicke (1916). After him are Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), Harry Daghlian (1921), Harold Brown (1927), Harold Agnew (1921), and Grote Reber (1911).

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