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Reference numberEC/1889/20
Previous numbersCert XI, 175
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TitleRowland, Henry Augustus: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor Henry A Rowland of Baltimore, distinguished as an experimental & mathematical physicist; for his determination in absolute measure of the magnetic susceptibilities of iron, mickel & cobalt; for his accurate measurements of fundamental physical constants; for the experimental proof of the electromagnetic effect of electric convection; for the theory & construction of curved diffraction-gratings of very great dispersive power; & for the effectual aid which he has given to the progress of Physics in America & other countries, is recommended by us as a proper person to be placed on the List of Foreign Members of the Royal Society
ProposersG G Stokes; John Evans; J W Hulke; H E Roscoe; Rayleigh; M Foster
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Rowland, Henry Augustus: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6981Rowland; Henry Augustus (1848 - 1901)1848 - 1901
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