Evan James Williams
Welsh experimental physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evan James Williams FRS (8 June 1903 – 29 September 1945) was a Welsh experimental physicist who worked in a number of fields with some of the most notable physicists of his day, including Patrick Blackett, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr.
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Born | Evan James Williams (1903-06-08)8 June 1903 |
Died | 29 September 1945(1945-09-29) (aged 42) Brynawel, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
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Known for | Sub-atomic particle research, anti-submarine warfare |
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Fields | Physics |
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Williams earned a degree at Swansea University, doctorates at Manchester and Cambridge universities and a professorship at Aberystwyth University. He was highly regarded by his colleagues, and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939.
He died of cancer at the age of 42.