Robert A. Woodruff

Infobox Scientist
name = Robert A. Woodruff


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birth_date = September, 1943
birth_place = Manhattan, Kansas
residence = United States
citizenship = United States
nationality = USA
field = Physics
work_institution = Lockheed Martin
Boeing
Ball Aerospace
alma_mater = Kansas State University
University of Illinois
University of Denver
prizes =

Robert A. Woodruff (September, 1943 – present) is an American physicist who is known principally for having designed and worked on a wide variety of instruments for space telescopes. These include Skylab (1967-1970), Apollo-Soyuz (1970s), Galileo(~1980), SIRTF and MIPS (1970s-1990s), and Hubble Space Telescope instruments [1977-present] (GHRS, STIS, COSTAR, ACS, COS, WFC3); JWST (1995-2000), Kepler (mid-1990s), TPF (2001 to present), and Destiny (2003-present). He has had one or more instruments flying continuously in space since the early 1970s.

Works

*R. Woodruff, B. Woodgate, C. Ludtke. "Optical Design of the Advanced Camera for Surveys, a Third Generation HST axial science instrument", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 3356, p. 249, Kona, (1998).

Persondata
NAME= Woodruff, Robert A.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= 1943-09
PLACE OF BIRTH= Manhattan, Kansas