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...
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Wood's glass is an optical filter glass invented in 1903 by American physicist Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955), which allows ultraviolet and infrared...
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a light source is referred to as a Wood's lamp, named after Robert Williams Wood, who invented the original Wood's glass UV filters. Although many other...
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Street in the 1850s. Robert Woods joined him some years later as a business partner and the company was renamed Williams and Woods. On opening, the factory...
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(1999). The Underwater Photographer. Focal Press. ISBN 0-240-51581-1. Robert Williams Wood (1914). Physical Optics. The Macmillan Company. p. 66. circle-of-light...
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Robert Wood Johnson I (February 20, 1845 – February 7, 1910) was an American industrialist. He was also one of the three brothers who founded Johnson...
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of sonic waves travelling through liquids was first reported by Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955) and Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975) in 1927. The experiment...
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The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) is a 965-bed hospital with campuses in New Brunswick (Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New...
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is an American philanthropic organization. It is the largest one focused solely on health. Based in Princeton...
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committee of three professors (Knight Dunlap, Henry C. McComas and Robert Williams Wood) was sent to Boston. Crandon had a luminous star attached to her...
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