Robert W. Wood made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Robert W. Wood as American physicist and inventor (1868–1955).
Robert W. Wood was born at Concord in 1868. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Harvard University and University of Chicago.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
Robert W. Wood is described as physicist, novelist and university teacher.
His affiliations include Johns Hopkins University.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are physics.
His work was formally recognised with the Frederic Ives Medal, Rumford Medal and Henry Draper Medal.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1955, at 87. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Johns Hopkins University
- Educated at Harvard University, University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Worked as physicist, novelist and university teacher
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