Frederic C. Williams

{{Short description|English engineer (1911–1977)}}

{{other people|Freddie Williams}}

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{{Use British English|date=September 2019}}

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| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Frederic C. Williams

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| birth_name = Frederic Calland Williams

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1911|6|26|df=y}}

|birth_place = Romiley, Stockport

|death_date = {{death date and age|1977|8|11|1911|6|26|df=y}}

|death_place = Manchester

| other_names = F.C. Williams
Freddie Williams

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|nationality = English

|citizenship = British

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| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• University of Manchester
• University of Oxford
• Telecommunications Research Establishment}}

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| education = Stockport Grammar School

| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|

• University of Manchester (BSc, MSc)
• University of Oxford (DPhil)}}

| thesis_title = Problems of spontaneous oscillation in electrical circuits

| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.673482

| thesis_year = 1936

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• Richard Grimsdale
• Tom Kilburn{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Tom|last=Kilburn|title= A storage system for use with binary digital computing machines |publisher=University of Manchester|date=1948|url=https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44MAN_ALMA_DS21194868550001631&context=L&vid=MU_NUI&search_scope=BLENDED&tab=local&lang=en_US|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.488439}}|website=manchester.ac.uk|author-link=Tom Kilburn}}}}

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• Williams tube
• Manchester Baby
• Manchester computers}}

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| awards = {{Plainlist|

• Hughes Medal (1963)
• Faraday Medal (1972)

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Sir Frederic Calland Williams, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS}}{{cite web |url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F1950%2F25%27) |title=EC/1950/25 Williams, Sir Frederic Calland: Library and Archive Catalogue |publisher=The Royal Society |archive-date=8 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708174409/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%3D%27EC%2F1950%2F25%27%29 |location=London |url-status=dead}} (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977),{{Cite journal | last1 = Kilburn | first1 = T. | author-link1 = Tom Kilburn| last2 = Piggott | first2 = L. S. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1978.0020 | title = Frederic Calland Williams. 26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 24 | pages = 583–604 | year = 1978 | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1979.0001 | title = Corrigenda: Frederic Calland Williams. 26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 25 | pages = 0–1 | year = 1979 | doi-access = free }} known as F.C. Williams or Freddie Williams,{{cite web|title=Frederic Calland Williams (1911–1977)|url=http://www.computer50.org/mark1/williams.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107045908/http://www.computer50.org/mark1/williams.html|archive-date=7 January 2010}} was an English engineer, a pioneer in radar and computer technology.{{Cite journal | last1 = Williams | first1 = Frederic | author-link1 = Frederic Calland Williams | last2 = Kilburn | first2 = Tom | author-link2 = Tom Kilburn | doi = 10.1038/162487a0 | title = Electronic Digital Computers | journal = Nature | volume = 162 | issue = 4117 | pages = 487 | year = 1948 | s2cid = 4110351 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 1948Natur.162..487W }}Anderson David, Delve Janet (2007) [https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.54 Frederic Calland Williams: the Manchester Baby's chief engineer] IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 29 (4): 90-102{{cite journal | last1 = Williams | first1 = F.C. | last2 =Kilburn | first2 = T. | year = 1949 | title = A storage system for use with binary-digital computing machines | journal = Proceedings of the IEE - Part II: Power Engineering | volume = 96| issue = 50| pages = 183–200| doi = 10.1049/pi-2.1949.0078 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224589116 }}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1145/1562164.1562180| title = Interview An interview with Maurice Wilkes| journal = Communications of the ACM| volume = 52| issue = 9| pages = 39–42| year = 2009| last1 = Anderson | first1 = D. P. | s2cid = 31699280}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/85.707570| title = Early programs on the Manchester Mark I Prototype| journal = IEEE Annals of the History of Computing| volume = 20| issue = 3| pages = 4| year = 1998| last1 = Shelburne | first1 = B. J. | last2 = Burton | first2 = C. P. }}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1049/ir:19980302| title = The Manchester baby reborn| journal = IEE Review| volume = 44| issue = 3| pages = 113–117| year = 1998| last1 = Burton | first1 = C.| doi-broken-date = 7 December 2024}}