Robert Williams (chemist)

Robert Joseph Paton Williams ( born February 25, 1926) is a British chemist. He was a professor at the University of Oxford.

Williams studied chemistry at Merton College, Oxford University with a master's degree in 1948 and his doctorate in 1950 at Harry Munroe Irving. These works were the Williams - Irving - series stability of complexes of ions. As a post - graduate student, he worked at Arne Tiselius in Uppsala, where he developed chromatographic methods. In return, he was a lecturer in chemistry at Wadham College, Oxford. 1965/66 he was at Harvard University in BL Vallee. During this time he turned to biochemistry. He was Reader and 1974 Napier Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford in 1972. In 1991 he retired. He was a Fellow of Wadham College. At Oxford, he is co-founder of the Oxford Enzyme Group.

In 1961 he proposed the proton gradient driven by the production of ATP, laying the foundations of the power supply in biology.

He's MBE (2010) and Fellow of the Royal Society (1972 ), the Royal Medal he received. In 1981 he was Lecturer Bakerian (Natural selection of the chemical elements ). He is a foreign member of the Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Portuguese and Swedish Academies of Sciences. Williams has won several honorary doctorates (lions, Leicester, Keele, Lisbon, University of East Anglia).

He published a book on the history of chemistry at Oxford.

Writings

  • With CSG Phillips Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University Press 1965
  • With JJR Frausto da Silva: The Chemistry of Evolution. The development of our ecosystem, Elsevier 2006
  • The same biological chemistry of the elements: the inorganic chemistry of life, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2001 ( first 1991)
  • Publisher Bioinorganic chemistry: trace element evolution from anaerobic to aerobic, Springer, 1998 ( with B. Abolmaali )
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