Dr. Barry Wood 

 

Dr. Barry Wood received his PhD in solid-state physics from the University of Toronto. He joined the Electrical Standards Group at the National Research Council in Ottawa Canada in 1981 where he began work on the quantum Hall effect and assumed responsibilities for operation for the Josephson Voltage standard. Since that time he has been involved in general quantum Hall research using both dc and ac measurement techniques, as well as the development of metrological quality QHR samples. Beginning in 1985 he developed NRC's Josephson Array Voltage Standards and he continues to be responsible for their operation and scaling to 1 kV. He developed the NRC cryogenic current comparator resistance bridges, as well as a number of 4 port ac bridges for realizing the resistance to capacitance transfer. He has been involved in 14 international comparisons but in the last two years has led a new project to establish a calculable capacitor at NRC. Barry is the co-author of four license agreements with a Canadian manufacturer of metrology equipment. He was the Section Head of the Electrical Standards Group for 15 years; is a member of the CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants, and is on the American National Academy of Sciences Review Panel of the EEEL laboratory of NIST. Most recently he has been appointed the chairman of the Consultative Committee for Electricity and Magnetism?s working group for the SI (WGSI).