R. Stanley Williams
American solid state physicist and inventor
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| Born | Richard Stanley Williams (1951-10-27) October 27, 1951 (age 72) Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Rice University |
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| Fields | nanotechnology |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Richard Stanley Williams (born 1951) is a research scientist in the field of nanotechnology and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending.[1] At HP, he led a group that developed a working solid state version of Leon Chua's memristor.[2][3]
Williams earned a bachelor's degree in chemical physics in 1974 from Rice University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. After graduating, he worked at Bell Labs before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he served as a professor from 1980 to 1995. He then joined HP Labs as director of its Information and Quantum Systems Lab.[4]
Awards and honors
- Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2000)
- Herman Bloch Medal for Industrial Research (2004)
- Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2000)[5]
- Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, UCLA (2007)
References
- ^ "R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories "Making and Using Functional Nanostructures 2007 Seaborg Symposium"". UCLA. September 2007.
- ^ Sally Addee (May 2008). "The Mysterious Memristor". IEEE Spectrum.
- ^ R. Colin Johnson (2008-04-30). "'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?". EE Times.
- ^ "Biography". Hewlett-Packard.
- ^ "Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics". Springer Science+Business Media.
External links
- His Nov. 28, 2008, article on Memristors in IEEE Spectrum
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