. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. iversity of Berlia, 1894-96; Instructor in Phy- R OBERT WILLIAMS WOOD, Scientist, Assis-tant Professor of Physics in the Universityof Wisconsin, was born in Concord, Massachusetts,May 2, 1868, son of Robert Williams and Lucy Jane(Davis) Wood. His early studies were pursued atthe Roxbury Latin School and at William NicholsPrivate School, Boston, from which he enteredHarvard and was graduated with the Class of 1891.
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. iversity of Berlia, 1894-96; Instructor in Phy- R OBERT WILLIAMS WOOD, Scientist, Assis-tant Professor of Physics in the Universityof Wisconsin, was born in Concord, Massachusetts,May 2, 1868, son of Robert Williams and Lucy Jane(Davis) Wood. His early studies were pursued atthe Roxbury Latin School and at William NicholsPrivate School, Boston, from which he enteredHarvard and was graduated with the Class of the succeeding year he was engaged in post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins, and for the nexttwo years was an honorary Fellow of the ChicagoLniversity, after which he went abroad, completinghis studies with a two years course of advancedscientific work at the University of Berlin. InSeptember 1S97, he was appointed Instructor inPhysics at the Lniversity of Wisconsin and in April1S99, was advanced to the Assistant Professorshipof that branch of study. Professor Wood is a mem-ber of the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science, The American Physical Society and. R. W. WOOD the Society of Astronomers and Astrophysicists aswell as the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. In the fieldof scientific research he has made unusually rapidprogress, having discovered a new process for pho- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 93 tographing in colors by means of diflraction gratings,whicli was exhibited, together with a series of pho-tographs of sound waves by him during his lecturebefore the Washington and National Academies onApril 14, 1S99. At the June meeting of the RoyalSociety, some of these pictures together with somephotographic diffraction gratings and other piecesof optical apparatus devised by Professor Wood,were exhibited by Professor Boys of London, andwere subsequently requested as a permanent exhibitby the South Kensington Museum. He is the origi-nator of the Electrical Thaw, a
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