Ogden Rood
American physicist
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- Bachelors Physics Columbia College
- PhD Physics Columbia College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ogden Nicholas Rood was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory. Career At age 18, Rood became a student at Yale University, but after his sophomore year he transferred to Princeton University , where he received his baccalaureate degree in 1852. For the next two years he was successively a graduate student at Yale University, an assistant at the University of Virginia, and an assistant to Benjamin Silliman. In 1854–1858, he lived in Germany, dividing his time between oil painting and academic studies in Berlin and Munich, working in the laboratory of Justus von Liebig. In 1858, shortly before returning to the U.S.A., he married Mathilde Prunner of Munich. In 1858 he joined the faculty of the short-lived Troy University. After the closure of Troy University in 1861, and after a one year absence from the academic world, he attained an appointment as Chair of Physics at Columbia University, a position he held from 1863 until his death. In 1865 Rood was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1869 he became a vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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