Robert W. Wood

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American physicist and inventor (1868-1955)

United States ScientistsLived 1868 to 1955 · aged 87

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Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography.

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The Clover and the Plover, illustration and verse from How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers (1907). See nature fakers controversy.

Photographs of sound waves (generated by sparks) and their reflections

Sketches of wavefronts observed from photographs

Awards 7

1940Henry Draper Medal

1938Rumford Medal

1938Rumford Prize

1933Frederic Ives Medal

1919Foreign Member of the Royal Society

1918Matteucci Medal

1914Guthrie Lecture

Connected to Robert 6

E. T. WhittakerAlso won Guthrie Lecture

Ira S. BowenAlso won Rumford Prize

Nicola CabibboAlso won Matteucci Medal William Wilson MorganAlso won Henry Draper Medal

Macedonio MelloniAlso won Rumford Medal

Franco RasettiAlso won Matteucci Medal

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Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work inform modern understanding of the physics of ultraviolet light, and made possible myriad uses of UV fluorescence, which became popular after World War I. He published many articles on spectroscopy, phosphorescence, diffraction, and ultraviolet light.

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