American Physical Society past President Marvin Cohen presents Adam Falk, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, with a plaque commemorating the work of Henry A. Rowland, founding president of the American Physical Society and professor of physics at Johns Hopkins from 1875 until his death in 1901. (The department took Rowland's name in 1991, when it moved into the new Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy.) At right is JHU alumnus John Rigden of Washington University in St. Louis, who is chair of the APS Historic Sites Committee. With the presentation of the plaque, to be installed in the Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins joined the APS Register of Historic Sites; also on it are the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Case Western Reserve University and Yale University. The presentation occurred at APS' March meeting, which was held in Baltimore.

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