biography
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Wood, Robert (Williams)
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| lived:
| (1868–1955)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, Chicago, and Berlin universities, and became professor of experimental physics at Johns Hopkins (1901–38). He carried out research on optics, spectroscopy, and ultrasonics, and was the first (in 1897) to observe electric-field emission, the basis of the field emission microscope. He wrote Physical Optics (1905), some fiction, and illustrated nonsense verse, in How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers (1907). |
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