Robert W. Wood - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	02-May-1868
Place of Birth	Concord (Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Robert Wood
Profession	Physicist
Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work shed much light on the nature and physics of ultra-violet radiation and made possible the myriad uses of uv-fluorescence which became popular after World War I.

Awards by Robert W. Wood

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert W. Wood.

1940

Henry Draper Medal	(In recognition of his contributions to astronomical physics, more especially his pioneering work upon resonance spectra, his use of color filters in astronomical photography, and his development of methods for concentrating to a high degree the light from diffraction gratings in desired orders and regions of the spectrum.)

1938

Rumford Medal	(In recognition of his distinguished work and discoveries in many branches of physical optics.)

1909

Rumford Prize	(For his discoveries in light, and particularly for his research on the optical properties of sodium and other metallic vapors.)

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