Robin Williams (physicist)
{{Short description|Welsh physicist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Professor Sir Robin Williams
| office = Chancellor of Bangor University
| order = 13th
| image =
| width = 100px
| predecessor = George Meyrick
| term_start = 2022
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|FLSW|HonFInstP|size=100%}}
| successor2 = Richard Davies
| predecessor2 = Brian Clarkson (Principal)
| office2 = Vice Chancellor of Swansea University
| order2 =
| birth_name = Robert Hughes Williams
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|12|22}}
}}
Sir Robert Hughes Williams, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|CBE|FRS|FLSW|HonFInstP}} (born 22 December 1941), commonly known as Robin Williams, is a Welsh physicist and academic specialising in solid state physics and semiconductors, and Chancellor of Bangor University.
He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Swansea from 1994 to 2003, and taught at the New University of Ulster and University of Wales, College of Cardiff before then.{{cite web |title=Williams, Prof. Robert Hughes, (Robin) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-40055 |website=Who's Who 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 June 2019 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40055 |date=1 December 2018|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}{{cite web |title=Professor Robin Williams CBE, FRS |url=https://www.hefcw.ac.uk/council_and_committees/council_members/professor_robin_williams.aspx |website=Higher Education Funding Council for Wales - hefcw |access-date=8 June 2019}}{{cite web |title=BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2019 – HIGH AWARDS |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807355/Birthday-Honours-2019_-Higher-awards.docx.pdf |website=GOV.UK |access-date=8 June 2019 |date=2019}}
Honours
In 1990, Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the United Kingdom's national academy for the sciences.{{cite web |title=Professor Robert Williams CBE FRS |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/robert-williams-12527/ |website=Royal Society |access-date=8 June 2019 |language=en-gb}} In 2010, he was elected a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).{{cite web |title=Yr Athro Robin Williams CBE HonFInstP FLSW FRS |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/robin-williams/ |website=The Learned Society of Wales |access-date=8 June 2019}}
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{{London Gazette |issue= 57155 |date= 31 December 2003 |pages= 7-9 |supp= y }} and knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to higher education, research and the Welsh language.{{London Gazette |issue= 62666 |date= 8 June 2019 |page= B2 |supp= y }}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Rhoderick |first1=E. H. |last2=Williams |first2=R. H. |title=Metal-semiconductor contacts |date=1988 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780198593355 |edition=2nd}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Morgan |editor1-first=D. V. |editor2-last=Williams |editor2-first=R. H. |title=Physics and technology of heterojunction devices |date=1991 |publisher=Peter Peregrinus |location=Stevenage |isbn=9780863412042}}
- {{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=G. J. |last2=Williams |first2=R. H. |title=Semiconductor growth, surfaces, and interfaces |date=1994 |publisher=Published by Chapman & Hall for the Royal Society |location=London |isbn=9780412577307 |edition=1st}}
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Category:Academics of Ulster University
Category:Academics of Cardiff University
Category:Academics of Swansea University
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society