E. C. Williams

Williams previously worked for the University of Manchester,{{cite journal|title=University and Educational Intelligence|journal=Nature|date=1 September 1923|volume=112|issue=2809|pages=346–347|doi=10.1038/112346b0|bibcode=1923Natur.112R.346.|s2cid=4074831|doi-access=free}} British Dyestuffs Corporation, {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nndyDwAAQBAJ&q=%22e.+c.+Williams%22+research+chemist+national+benzole&pg=PT242|title=The Universities and British Industry: 1850–1970|author=Michael Sanderson|date=11 October 2018|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1138323568}} as a research chemist to the joint committee of the University of Leeds and the National Benzol Board, {{cite journal|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.58.1490.48.a|doi=10.1126/science.58.1490.48 |access-date=31 March 2021|title=University and Educational Notes |journal=Science |date=20 July 1923 |volume=58 |issue=1490 |page=48 |pmid=17834626 |bibcode=1923Sci....58...48. }} before he was appointed as the first Ramsay professor of chemical engineering at University College London in 1923.

While at University College London, Williams stated that the due to the development of chemical plant,

"chemical expertise was becoming even more important for the engineers building the plant than for the industrial chemist's who used it, hence the fusion of the sciences".

Williams handed in his resignation in 1927{{cite journal|title=Scientific Notes and News|journal=Science |date=9 December 1927 |volume=66 |issue=1719 |pages=556–560 |publisher=Science New Series Published By: American Association for the Advancement of Science |doi=10.1126/science.66.1719.556 |jstor=1650987|bibcode=1927Sci....66..556. |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1518987 }}{{cite journal|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jctb.5000464804|title=Personal and Other Business|journal=Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry|volume= 46|issue= 48| page= 1129-1132 Correspondence |date= 2 December 1927 |doi=10.1002/jctb.5000464804}} before being replaced by W.E. Gibbs in 1928.{{citation |title=People, pipes and processes: a short history of chemical engineering and the Institution of Chemical Engineers |year=1997 |author=D. C. Freshwater}}{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFXHVTDLIegC&pg=PA226 |title=One hundred years of chemical engineering |author=Nicholas A. Peppas |year=1989|publisher=Springer |isbn=9780792301455}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemical-engineering/about/history|title=History - UCL Chemical Engineering has a long and distinguished history as a world-leading research department – the first of its kind in the UK. Find out more about some key figures and dates in our history|website=University College London|date=19 July 2018|access-date=31 March 2021}} Prior to his departure from University College London, he had engaged with British chemical companies and convinced them to make donations which allowed for the chemical engineering department to be increased in size.{{cite journal|title=Prof. W. E. Gibbs|journal=Nature |date=17 February 1934 |page=240|bibcode=1934Natur.133..240F |last1=f. g |first1=D. |volume=133 |issue=3355 |doi=10.1038/133240a0 |s2cid=4118542 |doi-access=free }}

After leaving University College London, he became Vice President in Charge of Research for Shell at their research laboratory in Berkeley, California.{{cite web|url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/collections/governing-board/march-15-1941|title=Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics, Minutes of Meeting|date=15 March 1941|access-date=31 March 2021}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLBdDwAAQBAJ&q=%22e.+c.+Williams%22+professor+1923&pg=PT93|title=The World of UCL|author=Negley Harte, John North, Georgina Brewis|date=21 May 2018|publisher=UCL Press|isbn=978-1787352940|access-date=31 March 2021}} While at Shell, he reported to the United States National Resources board in 1940.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RH0UAQAAMAAJ&q=Dr+%22e.c.williams%22+shell&pg=PA284|title=Industrial Research, United States National Resources Board 1939 pg. 284–285|year=1939|access-date=31 March 2021}}

After leaving Shell, Williams worked as head of research at General Mills,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/02/archives/made-research-director-dr-ec-williams-also-named-to-general-millss.html|title=MADE RESEARCH DIRECTOR; Dr. E.C. Williams Also Named to General Mills's Board|work=New York Times|date=2 October 1941|access-date=31 March 2021}} became a director of Standard Oil Company,{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSy2h3zbcWIC&q=%22e.+c.+Williams%22+Petroleum+research&pg=PA1039|title=Utilization of Farm Crops. Industrial Alcohol and Synthetic Rubber. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Subcommittee on S. Res. 224, Seventy-Seventh Congress, second session, on Mar. 20, 24, 25, 27, Apr. 2, 21–24, 30, May 5, 7, 8, 12, 15, 19, 21,1942.|year=1942|access-date=31 March 2021}} before being technical director at General Dyestuffs Corporation.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82JxKkGFd1AC&q=%22e.+c.+Williams%22+Petroleum+research&pg=RA1-PA322|title=Administration of the Trading with the Enemy Act|publisher=United States Senate, Subcommittee on the Trading with The Enemy Act on the Committee on the Judiciary| page= 322|date=20 February 1953|access-date=31 March 2021}}

Williams was given the seventh William H. Walker Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1942 for his work on the production of synthetic glycerol, which he had reported in the 1939 Transactions of the institute.{{cite journal|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-v020n010.p660#|title=Chemical Engineers Meet in Boston|journal=Chemical & Engineering News|publisher=Chem. Eng. News |pages= 660–666 |date=25 May 1942 |volume=20|issue=10|doi=10.1021/cen-v020n010.p660|access-date=31 March 2021}}

• Modern Petroleum Research, Industrial and Chemical Engineering, News edition, Washington D.C., 10 December 1938, vol. 16 pg. 630-632{{cite journal|title=Modern Petroleum Research|journal=Chem. Eng. News|pages=630–633|date=10 December 1938|doi=10.1021/cen-v016n023.p630|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}

• Olefins from saturated paraffins or iso-paraffins by means of alumina catalyst with a chromic acid promotar, National Petroleum News, Cleveland, 19 April 1939, vol. 31 no. 17 pg. 184-66{{cite journal|title=Bibliography of Aeronautics|journal=Institution of Aeronautical Science|date=January 1941}}

• The Executive and the Technologist, News Edition, American Chemical Society 1940, 18, 5, 191–194 (News), Publication Date (Print):10 March 1940, {{doi|10.1021/cen-v018n005.p191}}

• On the mechanism of boundary lubrication. II. Wear prevention by addition agents, with Otto Beeck and JW Givens, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 177, Issue 968, Pages 103–118, The Royal Society

• Operational Research, Nature 169, 556–557 (1952). Issued 5 April 1952, {{doi|10.1038/169556a0}}

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• {{Cite web |title=Williams, E. C., (1892–30 May 1973), now retired; Industrial Scientist |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-161015 |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |year=2007 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u161015|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}

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