Robert W. Wood
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American physicist and inventor (1868–1955)
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Vinony catalogs Robert W. Wood in its Fellows of the Royal Society collection (9,360 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vinony's link graph records 197 inbound references to Robert W. Wood, and connects out to ultraviolet radiation, ultrasound and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Vinony files it under 1868 births, 1955 deaths and 20th-century American male writers.
Vinony links it to 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Family name
- Wood
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Concord
- Place of death
- Amityville
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- Joseph Haines Moore
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Robert Williams Wood.png
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Robert Williams Wood
- date of death
- 1955-08-11
- date of birth
- 1868-05-02
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- writing language
- English language
- Commons Creator page
- Robert Williams Wood
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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1868 births1955 deaths20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelistsAmerican male novelistsAmerican optical physicistsAmerican science fiction writersForeign members of the Royal SocietyHarvard College alumniHonorary members of the USSR Academy of SciencesMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumniMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesPresidents of the American Physical SocietyRecipients of the Matteucci MedalRoxbury Latin School alumniUniversity of Chicago alumni