Robert W. Wood

Robert Williams Wood ( born 2 May 1868 in Concord, Massachusetts; † August 11, 1955 in Amityville, New York) was an American experimental physicist.

Beginning in 1901, Wood was a professor of experimental physics at Johns Hopkins University. He worked among others with Raman spectroscopy. He is best known by its rebuttal of the alleged discovery of the so-called N - rays. He is considered the discoverer of the Wood effect. Wood, 1897 has seen the first tunneling in the field emission of electrons, but could not correctly interpret it.

In his honor, the RW Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America is named.

Writings

  • Wood, RW: Note on the Theory of the Greenhouse. In: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol 17, pp. 319-320. , 1909.
  • A new form of Cathode Discharge and the Production of X - Rays, together with some Notes on Diffraction. In: Physical Review. Volume 5, 1897, p 1
  • Researches in physical optics ( vol.1 ), with special reference to the radiation of electrons. Columbia University Press, New York 1913.
  • Researches in physical optics ( vol.2 ), Resonance radiation and resonance spectra. Columbia University Press, New York 1919.
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