HENRY AUGUSTUS ROWLAND 



Born, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1848 

 Died, Baltimore, Maryland, April 16, 1901 



Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.), Johns Hopkins University, 1880. (Hon- 

 oris Causa.) 



Doctor of Laws (LL. D.), Yale University, 1895. 

 Doctor of Laws (LL. D.), Princeton University, 1896. 



Fellow or Member of 



The British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The Physical Society of London. 



The Philosophical Society of Cambridge, England. 



The Royal Society of London. 



The Royal Society of Gottingen. 



The Gioenian Academy of Natural Sciences, Catania, Sicily. 



The French Physical Society. 



The French Academy of Sciences. 



The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



The Royal Lyncean Academy, Rome. 



The Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. 



The Italian Society of Spectroscopists. 



The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



The Society of Arts, London. 



The Royal Astronomical Society of England. 



The Royal Society of Lombardy. 



The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen. 



The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 



The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. 



The National Academy of Sciences, Washington. 



The American Physical Society, its first President. 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America. 



Delegate of the United States Government to the 

 International Congress of Electricians, Paris, 1881. 

 International Congress for the Determination of Electrical Units, Paris, 



1882. Appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor of France. 

 Electrical Congress, Philadelphia, 1884, President. 

 International Chamber of Delegates for the Determination of Electrical 



Units, Chicago, 1893, President. 



PRIZES AND MEDALS. 



Rumford Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 Draper Medal, National Academy of Sciences. 

 Matteucci Medal. 



Prize awarded by the Venetian Institute in competition for a critical 

 paper on the Mechanical Equivalent, of Heat. 



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