The American Physical Society published a biography of Professor RW Wood in October. It was part of their This Month in Physics History series and commemorated Wood's Royal Photographic Society lecture in 1910. (The biog says this was the first publication of infrared photographs, but that was actually in The Century Magazine in February 1910.)
If you are unfamiliar with this fascinating, and omnitalented, chap then I suggest you give the piece a read:
www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201710/physicshistory.cfm
[Thanks to Professor Paul Feldman of Johns Hopkins for the heads up]
Thursday, 7 December 2017
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