Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Helmholtz in Berlin, and examining some of the physical laboratories in Europe. In 1876 he was called to the then new johns Hopkins University, where he occupies the Chair of Physics, besides having charge of the physical laboratory. In 1880 Prof. Rowland had conferred upon him by this University the honorary degree of PH. D. DF. William H. Welch was born in Norfolk, Conn. He gradu- ated at Yale College in the year 1870 with the degree of A. B.. and in the year 1875 received the degree of M. D. from the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in New York. He further prosecuted his studies abroad, being for a time a student under Professor Cohnheim of Leipsic. On returning to this country, Dr. XVelch became Professor of Pathological Anatomy and General Pathology in the Bellevue Hospital of New York. Here he remained until the spring of 1884, when he accepted a call to the Professorship of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University. He is at the same time connected with the Johns Hopkins Hospital. if H. l . 'IN Q Xxgfl X ix xg fb ff 0 17

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quently we11t abroad and prosecuted his studies in London, Berlin and Vienna. After returning to America, Dr. Osler was Professor in the Insti- tute of Medicine in Montreal, from 1874 until 1884, He was then called to the Vniversity of Pennsylvania, where he held the Chair of Clinical Medicine until coming to Baltimore, at the opening of the johns Hopkins Hospital. He there holds the position of Physician of the Hospital, at the same time being Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine in this Vniversity. In 1885, Dr. Osler was appointed Galstonian Lecturer in the Royal College of Physicians, London, and in 1886, Cartwright Lecturer in the College of Physicians Hlld Surgeons in New York. He is author of many valuable contributions to medicine, and has written for various medical journals both in this country and in Great Britain and Canada. Pl Of. Ira Remsen was born in New York City o11 the Ioth of February, 1846. After studying at the College of the City of New York, he was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia in 1867. About this time he selected chemistry as his profession, and went to Germany in order further to prosecute his studies. After studying a year at Munich, and two years at Gottingen, he received the degree of PH. D. at Gottingen, in 1870. During the next two years he remained in Tiibingen as assistant in the laboratory of the University of that place, having gone thither at the invitation of Prof. Rudolph Fittig. Returning then to the United States, Dr. Remsen accepted the Professorship of Chemistry and Physics in Willianis College, where he remained until called to the johns Hopkins University, in 1876. Among his special scientinc researches are those On the Rela- tion of Oxygen, Ozone and Active Oxygen, and On the Chemical Action in Magnetism. In the latter, evidence was for the first time given that chemical action is sometimes influenced by magnetism. Ill 1879 Dr. Remsen founded the American Chemical journal, which he has since edited. Prof. Henry Augustus Rowland, the son ofthe Rev. Henry Augustus Rowland, of Connecticut, was born in Honesdale, Pa., Nov. 27th, 1848. He attended Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated as a Civil Engineer in 1870. During the year 1871, he was employed in surveying a railroad in the western part of the State of New York. He afterwards taught for a time in Wooster Ifniversity, but returned, in 1872, to the Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute as In- structor in Physics, becoming, in 1874, Assistant Professor. About 1875, Prof. Rowland spent a year abroad, studying with lti

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