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Biography

A B Wood is a physicist best known for his work on developing sonar (known at that time as 'ASDICS') in the UK during and after the First World War. He graduated from Manchester University with First Class Honours, where he joined an outstanding team of scientists led by Sir Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford), including H. G. J. Moseley, Hans Geiger, Niels Bohr, Ernest Marsden, James Chadwick, G. von Hevesy and Charles Galton Darwin. French F70 type frigates (here, La Motte-Picquet) are fitted with VDS (Variable Depth Sonar) type DUBV43 or DUBV43C towed sonars SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) â€” or sonar â€” is a technique that uses sound propagation under water (primarily) to navigate, communicate or to detect other vessels. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... University of Manchester Motto: Cognitio Sapientia Hvmanitas Knowledge, wisdom, humanity. ... The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme used to distinguish between the achievements of undergraduate degree holders (such as those gaining bachelors degrees or undergraduate masters degrees) in the United Kingdom. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. ... Johannes ( Hans ) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ... Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. ... Sir Ernest Marsden (1888 - 1970), was a British-New Zealand physicist. ... Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the neutron. ... George Charles de Hevesy (born as Hevesy György, also known as Georg Karl von Hevesy) (August 1, 1885 in Budapest – July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian chemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e. ... Sir Charles Galton Darwin. ...

He joined the Board of Invention and Research in October 1915, shortly after its creation, to help with the UK war effort against Germany. He joined the Admiralty Research Establishment in Teddington when this body was formed in 1921, where he eventually became Deputy Superintendent. Teddington is a leafy, green and highly desirable suburb of south west London, England and part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ...

In 1939 A B Wood was awarded the title Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), in recognition of his work on dismantling a German magnetic mine at the start of the Second World War. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... A naval mine is a stationary self-contained explosive device placed in water, to destroy ships and/or submarines. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

In 1951 he was awarded the Duddell Medal by the Institute of Physics and in 1961 the Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics Medal by the Acoustical Society of America. The A B Wood medal is awarded by the Institute of Acoustics in his name. The Institute of Physics (IOP) is Britain and Irelands main professional body for physicists. ... The Acoustical Society of America is an international scientific society dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications. ... The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. ...

See also

• underwater acoustics
• sonar
• A B Wood Medal

Underwater acoustics is the study of the propagation of sound in water and the interaction of the mechanical waves that constitute sound with the water and its boundaries. ... French F70 type frigates (here, La Motte-Picquet) are fitted with VDS (Variable Depth Sonar) type DUBV43 or DUBV43C towed sonars SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) â€” or sonar â€” is a technique that uses sound propagation under water (primarily) to navigate, communicate or to detect other vessels. ...

External links

Publications

• A. B. Wood, A Textbook of Sound, Bell, 1930, 3rd revised edition 1955.

References

• A. B. Wood, From the Board of Invention and Research to the Royal Naval Scientific Service, Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service Vol 20, No 4, pp 1-100 (185-284).