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. At HP, he led a group that developed a working solid state version of Leon Chua's memristor.
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.
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)
External links
References
"R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories "Making and Using Functional Nanostructures 2007 Seaborg Symposium"". UCLA. September 2007. http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/alumni/Seaborg/2007_SEABORG/Williams_bio.html ↩
Sally Addee (May 2008). "The Mysterious Memristor". IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-mysterious-memristor ↩
R. Colin Johnson (2008-04-30). "'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?". EE Times. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403521 ↩
"Biography". Hewlett-Packard. http://www.hpl.hp.com/about/bios/stanwilliams.html ↩
"Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics". Springer Science+Business Media. https://www.springer.com/physics/optics/journal/340?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=104813#anchor3 ↩