Robert Williams Wood: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Apr 28, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 07, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Apr 16, 2024
Modified title of Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Biography of Robert Williams Wood. Oct 28, 2016
Information about Wood taking the first infrared and ultraviolet photographs added. "Supersonics" changed to "ultrasonics." Oct 14, 2010
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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