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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert W. Wood has received more than 141,500 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert W. Wood is the 380th most popular physicist (down from 362nd in 2019), the 2,587th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,363rd in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert W. Wood ranks 380 out of 717. Before him are Giovanni Aldini, Johanna Budwig, Edwin H. Land, Vladimir Chelomey, Ányos Jedlik, and Henri Tresca. After him are Lyman Spitzer, Chester Carlson, Johann Andreas Segner, Wolfgang Ketterle, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, and Philip Abelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Robert W. Wood ranks 74. Before him are Paul P. Harris, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Louis Couturat, Wilhelm Schmidt, Otto von Lossow, and Francis Jammes. After him are Lin Sen, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Aleksa Šantić, Infanta Blanca of Spain, James Connolly, and Francesco Saverio Nitti. Among people deceased in 1955, Robert W. Wood ranks 56. Before him are Manuel Ávila Camacho, Kim Seong-su, Otto Braun, Alfréd Hajós, Hubert Cecil Booth, and Antanas Merkys. After him are Tin Ujević, Cy Young, Olga Khokhlova, Adolfo de la Huerta, Ivan Šubašić, and Arthur Tansley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert W. Wood ranks 2,587 out of 18,182. Before him are Jeffrey Hunter (1926), Carl Sandburg (1878), Jeffrey Wright (1965), Garrett Morgan (1877), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), and Pauley Perrette (1969). After him are J. J. Abrams (1966), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Leslie Easterbrook (1949), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Diane Ladd (1935), and Andy Williams (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert W. Wood ranks 79. Before him are Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Carl Wieman (1951), and Edwin H. Land (1909). After him are Lyman Spitzer (1914), Chester Carlson (1906), Philip Abelson (1913), Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), and John C. Mather (1946).

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