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Robert Hughes Williams
Solid state scientist

Robert Hughes Williams

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Solid state scientist
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Robert Williams
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83 years
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Knight Bachelor
(2019)
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Biography

Sir Robert Hughes Williams, CBE, FRS, FLSW (born 22 December 1941), commonly known as Robin Williams, is a Welsh physicist and academic, specialising in solid state physics and semiconductors. He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Swansea from1994 to 2003. He had taught at the New University of Ulster and University of Wales, College of Cardiff, before joining Swansea.

Honours

In 1990, Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the United Kingdom's national academy for the sciences. In 2010, he was elected a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to education and to the community in Swansea and knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to higher education, research and the Welsh language.

Selected works

  • Rhoderick, E. H.; Williams, R. H. (1988). Metal-semiconductor contacts (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198593355.
  • Morgan, D. V.; Williams, R. H., eds. (1991). Physics and technology of heterojunction devices. Stevenage: Peter Peregrinus. ISBN 9780863412042.
  • Davies, G. J.; Williams, R. H. (1994). Semiconductor growth, surfaces, and interfaces (1st ed.). London: Published by Chapman & Hall for the Royal Society. ISBN 9780412577307.
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