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Robert W. Wood

1868 - 1955

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Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert W. Wood is the 418th most popular physicist (up from 440th in 2019), the 3,159th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,027th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert W. Wood ranks 418 out of 851. Before him are Philip Abelson, Charles H. Bennett, William Watson, Lyman Spitzer, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, and Johannes Franz Hartmann. After him are Bruno Rossi, Georgy Flyorov, Johann Andreas Segner, John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, and Louis Harold Gray.

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Among people born in 1868, Robert W. Wood ranks 91. Before him are George Arliss, Stanisław Przybyszewski, George Ellery Hale, Alice Keppel, La Belle Otero, and Jaan Tõnisson. After him are Francesco Saverio Nitti, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Josep Comas i Solà, Alfred Fowler, and Lauri Ingman. Among people deceased in 1955, Robert W. Wood ranks 68. Before him are Adolfo de la Huerta, Emma Jung, Tin Ujević, Konstantin Hierl, Emmett Till, and Antanas Merkys. After him are Reiner Stahel, Louis Lachenal, Carl Milles, Arthur Tansley, Isak Samokovlija, and Holger Nielsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert W. Wood ranks 3,159 out of 20,380. Before him are John Taylor (1883), John Leslie (1945), Walter Lantz (1899), Tom Sizemore (1961), Johnny Rebel (1938), and Annie Sprinkle (1954). After him are Lead Belly (1888), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), Natalie Cole (1950), Randy Newman (1943), Nancy Marchand (1928), and Raymond E. Feist (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert W. Wood ranks 86. Before him are Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), and Lyman Spitzer (1914). After him are John Mauchly (1907), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Alan Guth (1947), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), and Howard P. Robertson (1903).

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