John Armstead Wood Explained

John Armstead Wood
Birth Date:28 July 1932
Birth Place:Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph. D)
Doctoral Advisor:Gordon J. F. MacDonald
Known For:Planetary geology
Field:Planetary geologist, Astronomer
Work Institution:Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

John Armstead Wood (born 1932 in Virginia, United States) is an American astrophysicist. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute[1], and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Gordon J. F. MacDonald. He then joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which he retired from in 2004.[2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.[3] The Hungaria-type asteroid (4736) Johnwood is named in his honor. His papers are archived with the Smithsonian Institution.[4]

Work

Wood's research involved the petrological study of chondritic meteorites towards an understanding of the origin of the Solar System. Wood analyzed lunar samples from the Apollo 11 mission. He presented his results at the first Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 1970.[5] In the course of his work, he developed models of the Moon's formation and its internal evolution. Wood was an investigator in the RADIG group that specified the entire workflow for the radar science data collected by the Magellan mission to Venus.[6] [7] Wood chaired the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) from 1999-2002,[8] [9] under the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wood . John Armstead . 2024-11-22 . Home John A. Wood . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20241120080318/https://www.johnwoodscience.com/ . 2024-11-20 . 2024-11-22 . John A. Wood.
  2. Web site: 2024-10-01 . John Armstead Wood American Academy of Arts and Sciences . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220117222339/https://www.amacad.org/person/john-armstead-wood . 2022-01-17 . 2024-11-22 . American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  3. Web site: Member Directory American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 2024-11-23 . www.amacad.org.
  4. Web site: sysadmin . 2011-09-16 . SIA Acc. 05-265, Wood, John A. 1932-, John A. Wood Papers, 1950-2005 . 2024-11-23 . Smithsonian Institution Archives . en.
  5. Wood, J. A., J. S. Dickey, Jr., U. B. Marvin, and B. N. Powell (1970) Lunar anorthosites and a geophysical model of the moon. Proc. Apollo 11 Lunar Sci. Conf., 965-988.
  6. Web site: The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide . 2024-11-23 . solarsystem.nasa.gov.
  7. Web site: 2024-11-22 . Table 7-1, RADIG Members . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20241123023232/https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/magellan/gif/t7-1.gif . 2024-11-23 . 2024-11-23 . Magellan Mission to Venus.
  8. Web site: 2001-12-15 . SSB Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20011215124917/https://www.nationalacademies.org/ssb/complex1.html . 2001-12-15 . 2024-11-23 . The National Academies.
  9. Web site: Wood . John Armstead . 2024-11-23 . Committee Duties . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20241123054826/https://www.johnwoodscience.com/committee-duties . 2024-11-23 . 2024-11-23 . John A. Wood.
  10. Web site: Stories by John A. Wood . 2024-11-23 . Scientific American . en.
  11. Web site: John A. Wood: From Scientist to Painter Arts The Harvard Crimson . 2024-11-23 . www.thecrimson.com.
  12. Web site: 2024-11-23 . National Academy of Sciences (NAS) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240425134815/https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/about/prizes-and-awards/national-academy-sciences-nas . 2024-04-25 . 2024-11-23 . Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.
  13. Web site: 2021-08-18 . Leonard Medalists . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210818003513/https://meteoritical.org/awards/leonard-medalists . 2021-08-18 . 2024-11-23 . The Meteoritical Society.
  14. Web site: G.K. Gilbert Award - Planetary Geology Division . 2024-11-23 . community.geosociety.org . en.
  15. Web site: AGU - American Geophysical Union . 2024-11-23 . www.agu.org.

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