R. Stanley Williams

Richard Stanley Williams ( born 1951 ) is an American physicist in the field of nanotechnology.

Williams received a bachelor's degree in chemical physics in 1974 at Rice University and the Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. Subsequently, he worked at Bell Labs before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he was employed as a professor from 1990 to 1995. Williams then moved to HP Labs as director of the Information and Quantum Systems Lab. At HP, he led a group that worked on the Solid State version of Leon Chua's memristor.

Williams is the holder of 57 patents and another 40 that have been requested.

Awards

  • 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
  • 2000: Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics ( 2000)
  • 2004: Herman Bloch Medal for Industrial Research
  • 2007: Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, UCLA
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