R. Stanley Williams

R. Stanley Williams

R. Stanley Williams is research scientist in the field of nanotechnology and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research laboratory at HP. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending. [cite web|url=http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/alumni/Seaborg/2007_SEABORG/Williams_bio.html|publisher=UCLA|title=R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories "Making and Using Functional Nanostructures 2007 Seaborg Symposium"|date=2007-09] At HP, he led a group that developed a working solid state version of Leon Chua's memristor cite web|url=http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6207|title=The Mysterious Memristor|author=Sally Addee|publisher=IEEE Spectrum|date=2008-05] [ cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403521|title= 'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?|author=R. Colin Johnson|publisher=EE Times|date=2008-04-30] .

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 became the founding Director of its Quantum Science Research Initialitive, now called Information & Quantum Sciences Lab.

Awards and honors

* Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2000)
* Herman Bloch Medal for Industrial Research (2004)
* Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2000) [cite web|url=http://www.springer.com/physics/optics/journal/340?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=104813#anchor3|publisher=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media|title=Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics]
* Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, UCLA (2007)

See also

*Leon Chua
*Memristor

References


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