# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-augustus-rowland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:13:51.160Z

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name: "Henry Augustus Rowland"
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description: "Henry Augustus Rowland was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins educator. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered for the high quality of the diffraction gratings he made and for the work he did with them on the solar spectrum."
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birthDate: "1848-11-27"
deathDate: "1901-04-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump