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- Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS, HonFREng (19 April 1927 – 23 November 2021) was a British engineer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful.
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Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS, HonFREng (19 April 1927 – 23 November 2021) was a British engineer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful.
Nov 30, 2021 · Sir Martin, who was knighted in 1986 for his services to science, died at the age of 94 on 23 November after a short illness. He joined the university in 1955 as a senior research...
Nov 30, 2021 · Sir Martin Wood made breakthroughs in the field of superconducting magnets in the 1950s and 1960s. He started Oxford University's first successful spinout company, Oxford...
Nov 29, 2021 · Tributes from across the University are being paid to Sir Martin Wood who died last week at the age of 94. Sir Martin’s pioneering work led to the development of the world’s first superconducting magnet, a new research field of nuclear magnetic resonance, and the creation of the first fully functioning MRI for medical use, which has led to ...
Apr 19, 2022 · 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)
Mar 29, 2023 · Abstract. Martin Wood was much more than an engineer or entrepreneur. In co-founding with his wife, Audrey Wood, the very first spin-out company in the history of the then 900-year-old University of Oxford, he initiated a climate of innovation that, decades later, still influences the university and the city of Oxford.
Nov 24, 2021 · Sir Martin Wood joined Oxford Physics in 1955 as a Senior Research Officer, working with Professor Nicholas Kurti. Martin's work on resistive high-field magnets in Kurti’s research group led to other universities wanting access to the technology.
