Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 238) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871692382)

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.

Author: George Kean Sweetnam
ISBN-10: 0871692384
ISBN-13: 9780871692382
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2001 pg. 17