Awards & Winners

Henry Augustus Rowland

Date of Birth 27-November-1848
Place of Birth Honesdale
(Wayne County, Pennsylvania)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Henry August Rowland
Profession Physicist
Henry Augustus Rowland was a U.S. physicist. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered today particularly for the high quality of the diffraction gratings he made and for the work he did with them on the solar spectrum.

Awards by Henry Augustus Rowland

Check all the awards nominated and won by Henry Augustus Rowland.

1890


Henry Draper Medal
(For his researches on the solar spectrum, as well as for his investigations in astronomical physics.)

1883


Rumford Prize
(For his research in light and heat.)