Dr. R.J. Woods, professor of Chemistry, manipulates a Co60 source in the radiation laboratory in a Chemistry annex.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. R.J. Woods, professor of Chemistry, 1964-1995.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Robert James Woods was born in London, England in 1928. He earned a BSc (1949) and a PhD (1951) from Imperial College, University of London. From 1951-1953 Dr. Woods worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Prairie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council in Saskatoon. He spent the following year at the University of New Zealand before accepting his first appointment at the University of Saskatchewan in 1955 as a research associate in Chemistry. Dr. Woods served as acting head of Chemistry from 1984-1985 and head from 1985-1988. Dr. Woods retired in 1993. In 1964 the book An Introduction to Radiation Chemistry, written by J.W.T. Spinks and Dr. Woods, was the first textbook in English to attempt to bring the various strands of radiation chemistry in one place. Revised editions were published in 1976 and 1990. In 1994 Dr. Woods and A.K. Pikaev collaborated to publish Applied Radiation Chemistry: Radiation Processing.