#  Former Directors 

 



##  Former Directors 

 

 

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  [### Phil Dubois, PhD

 ](/directory/phil-dubois)Director of Rowland, 1992-1997

(b. 1932 - d. 2014)

 

 

 

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   [### Cynthia Friend, PhD

 ](/directory/cynthia-friend)Director of Rowland, 2013 - 2019

President, The Kavli Foundation

 

 

 

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   [### Edwin Land

 ](/directory/edwin-h-land)Founding Director of Rowland, 1980-1991

(b. 1909 - d. 1991)

 

 

 

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   [### Andrew Murray, PhD

 ](/directory/andrew-murray-phd)Director of Rowland, 2020-2026

Harvard College Professor, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics

 

 

 

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   [### Frans Spaepen, PhD

 ](/directory/frans-spaepen)Director of Rowland, 2002-2013

John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics

 

 

 

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   [### Christopher Stubbs, PhD

 ](/directory/christopher-stubbs)Director of Rowland, 2019

Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy

 

 

 

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