Robert A. Woodruff

Robert A. Woodruff
Born	September, 1943 Manhattan, Kansas
Residence	United States
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	USA
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Lockheed Martin Boeing Ball Aerospace
Alma mater	Kansas State University University of Illinois University of Denver

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).^[1] 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).

References

^ "Optical design of the Advanced Camera for Surveys, a third generation HST axial science instrument". The Advanced Camera for Surveys. http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/instrument/papers/abstracts/woodruff-abs.html. Retrieved 5 December 2010.

Persondata
Name	Woodruff, Robert A.
Alternative names
Short description	American physicist
Date of birth	1943-09
Place of birth	Manhattan, Kansas
Date of death
Place of death