Command of Light by George Kean Sweetnam

Command of Light by George Kean Sweetnam

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.

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ISBN 13	9780871692382
ISBN 10	0871692384
Title	Command of Light
Author	George Kean Sweetnam
Series	Memoirs Of The American Philosophical Society
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	American Philosophical Society Press
Year published	2000-01-01
Number of pages	233
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