Robert Wood
- Born: May 2, 1868 (Concord, Massachusetts)
- Died: August 11, 1955
Education
- 1891: AB, Harvard University
- 1891–1892: Johns Hopkins University
- 1892–1894: University of Chicago
- 1894–1896: University of Berlin
Major Positions
- 1897–1898: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Instructor in Physics
- 1898–1901: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1901–1938: Johns Hopkins University, Professor of Experimental Physics
- 1938–1951: Johns Hopkins University, Research Professor
- 1951–1955: Johns Hopkins University, Emeritus Research Professor
Other Positions
- 1912–1912: Columbia University, Adams Research Fellow
- 1917–1919: United States Army, Major
- 1935–1935: American Physical Society, President
- 1944–1946: Manhattan Project, Consultant
Selected Awards and Honors
Published Resources
G. H. Dieke, "Robert Williams Wood: 1868-1955", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
William Seabrook, Doctor Wood: Modern Wizard of the Laboratory (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1941)
Irving M. Klotz, "The N-Ray Affair," Scientific American 242 (1980): 168-175
Theodore C. Sterling, "Physics Meets Photography: The Diffraction Chromoscope and the Diffraction Process of Color Photography," Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise 8 (1993): 65-72
Malcolm Ashmore, "The Theatre of the Blind: Starring a Promethean Prankster, a Phoney Phenomenon, a Prism, a Pocket, and a Piece of Wood," Social Studies of Science 23 (1993): 67-106
