Abstract

This short biographical paper supplements, with personal recollections, the record of the life of R. W. Wood, doyen of American physics, as given in DR. WOOD by William Seabrook, and the summary of his work, that appeared in the Journal of the Optical Society of America in 1933 on the occasion of his being awarded the Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America.

© 1976 Optical Society of America

John William Draper 1811–1882 photographic scientist

W. Lewis Hyde
Appl. Opt. 15(7) 1726-1730 (1976)

Robert Williams WoodIves Medallist of the Optical Society of America for 1933

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 23(12) 413-415 (1933)

Men and milestones in optics. VI: The rise of infrared spectroscopy in the U.S.A. to World War II

E. Scott Barr
Appl. Opt. 15(7) 1707-1721 (1976)

Robert John Strutt, fourth Baron Rayleigh

Guy R Strutt
Appl. Opt. 3(10) 1105-1112 (1964)

John William Strutt, third Baron Rayleigh

John N. Howard
Appl. Opt. 3(10) 1091-1101 (1964)