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Authorised form of name	Wood; Robert Williams (1868 - 1955)
Dates	1868 - 1955
Date of birth	02 May 1868
Date of death	11/08/1955
Membership category	Foreign Member
Date of election	26/06/1919
RSActivity	Medals and prizes: Rumford Medal 1938
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 327-345, plate, by G H Dieke References: J C D Brand, 'The Discovery of the Raman Effect' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 1-23 R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/29600638
Code	NA5783

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
IM/004988	Wood, Robert Williams	1937
IM/007141	Group photograph	1911
NLB/20/687	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane	18 June 1900
NLB/21/111	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane	30 July 1900
NLB/23/1/141	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Williams Wood, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	1 October 1901
MS/928/2/197	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, San Francisco, California, to Charles Vernon Boys	28 August 1900
MS/928/2/199	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, Holderness, New Hampshire, to Charles Vernon Boys	6 September 1901
MS/928/2/196	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 237 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, to Charles Vernon Boys	5 April 1900
MS/928/2/200	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, Physical Laboratory, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, to Charles Vernon Boys	21 November 1901
MS/928/2/194	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 237 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, to Charles Vernon Boys	10 December 1899
MS/928/2/195	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 237 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, to Charles Vernon Boys	13 January [1900]
NLB/58/905	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Thomas Ralph] Merton, FRS	2 July 1920
NLB/59/234	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert Williams] Wood, FRS	29 July 1920
NLB/59/120	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert Williams] Wood, FRS; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, M.D., U.S.A.	19 July 1920
NLB/67/105	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert Williams] Wood Esq., ForMemRS	23 October 1924
RR/62/101	Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'Optical and physical effects of high explosives' by Robert Williams Wood	[July 1936]
RR/71/282	Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'Spontaneous deformation of protocatechuic acid crystals' by Robert Williams Wood	1948
CD/24/4	Letter from [Robert Williams] Wood, Long Island, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society	28 July 1919
EC/1919/24	Wood, Robert Williams: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/928/2/198	Letter from Robert Williams Wood, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 237 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, to Charles Vernon Boys	20 May 1901
RR/73/22	Referee's report by Robert Williams Wood, on a paper 'Travelling disturbances in the ionosphere' by G H Munro	1950
ACS/1/1/439/62	Letter from [Robert Williams] Wood, Physical Laboratory, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, to [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton	29 February 1928

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