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Sir Martin Wood: the supercool thinker who founded Oxford Instruments

19 Apr 2022 James McKenzie
Taken from the April 2022 issue of Physics World.

James McKenzie looks back at the remarkable life of the late Sir Martin Wood, who was a pioneer in the commercialization of physics research

Sir Martin Wood and Lady Audrey Wood
Visionary minds Sir Martin Wood (1927–2021) founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 with his wife Lady Audrey Wood (right), building it into a world-leading enterprise that later created whole-body MRI scanners. (Courtesy: Oxford Instruments)
It all started in a garden shed in Northmoor Road, Oxford, in 1959. That was where Martin Wood and h

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James McKenzie is the writer of the Transactions column for Physics World about physics in industry. He is writing here in a personal capacity
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