W.J.A. Bliss papers, 1892-1927.

Rowland, Henry Augustus, 1848-1901

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Biographical Note: First professor of physics at the Johns Hopkins University. He married Henrietta Harrison in 1890, and they had three children Harriet, Henry, and Davidge. From the description of Rowland (Henry Augustus) papers, 1793-1970. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 49310918 Henry Augustus Rowland was a physicist and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1896. From the description of Scrapbook, [n.d.]. (American Philosophica...

Johns Hopkins University. Dept. of Physics.

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Bliss, William Julian Albert, 1867-1940.

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Professor of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University. Bliss was born in Washington, D.C. on January 22, 1867. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1888 and entered the Physics graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University the same year. After receiving his doctorate in 1894, Bliss joined the faculty. He taught continously for 38 years, instructing students in electricity and magnetism and co-authoring with Joseph S. Ames what was to be come the standard physics lab guid...

Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943

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Biographical Note: Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864-1943) was a physicist, professor (1891-1926) and president (1929-1935) of The Johns Hopkins University, and chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Ames took his B.A. and Ph. D. (1890) degrees from Hopkins. In 1886-87 he studied with Helmholtz at the University of Berlin. Returning to Hopkins Ames studied spectroscopy with Henry Rowland and succeeded Rowland as director of the Physical Laboratory in 1901....