Frederic Calland Williams

Sir Frederic Calland Williams ( born June 26, 1911 in Stockport, † August 11 1977 in Manchester ) was an English engineer.

He attended the University of Manchester in 1936 and earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford. During World War II he worked at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in the development of radar. Together with Tom Kilburn at Manchester University, he developed the first stored- program computer, which holds both program and data in the shared memory ( Von Neumann architecture). He is known for the development of the Williams tube and the computer Manchester Mark I. From 1946 until his death in 1977 he was at the University of Manchester Director of the Electrical Engineering Department, which later became the Department of Computer Science developed the Computer Group and.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1950 ), was awarded the Hughes Medal ( 1963), the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1972) and the Pioneer Award from the IEEE (1972). An honors he received the OBE (1945 ), CBE (1961) and was knighted in 1976.