“Those were the days,” reminisced Daniel Gilman, the President of The Johns Hopkins University, “when scientific lecture‐rooms in America gloried in demonstrations of ‘wonders’ of Nature—‘the bright light, the loud noise, and the bad smell.’ Rowland would have none of this.” The Johns Hopkins physicist thus characterized was Henry Rowland, whose contributions—particularly those in spectroscopy and electromagnetism—secured him a high place in the ranks of nineteenth‐century physicists.
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