Author:Robert Williams Wood

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Robert Williams Wood
(1868–1955)

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American physicist and inventor

Works

Physical Optics. (1905)
"Note on the Theory of the Greenhouse". The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. 17, pp. 319–320. (1909)
Researches in physical optics (vol.1), with special reference to the radiation of electrons. (1913)
The Man Who Rocked the Earth, with Arthur Train (1915)
The Moon Maker. Garden City, with Arthur Train (sequel to The Man Who Rocked the Earth) (1916)
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts. A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners. (includes Animal Anatomies) (1917)
Researches in physical optics (vol.2), Resonance radiation and resonance spectra. (1919)
"The Photography of Sound Waves" in Popular Science Monthly, 57 (August 1900), pp. 354–364

Works about Wood

Seabrook, W. . Doctor Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory. (1941)
Klotz, I. M. . "The N-ray affair". Scientific American: May, 130. (1980)
[Anon.] "Wood, Robert Williams", Encyclopaedia Britannica, Deluxe CDROM edition (2001)
Williams, R. & Williams, G. . "Pioneers of Invisible Radiation Photography: Prof Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955)". Medical and Scientific Photography. (2002) Retrieved 2007-08-13.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1955, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 68 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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