Robert Williams#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1470 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Robert Williams passed away March 21, 2015.
Positions Held
- 1993 Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford
- 1993 Emeritus Professor, Oxford University
- 1991 Visiting Professor, Royal Free Hospital, London University
- 1991 - 1993 Senior Research Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford
- 1991 - 1993 President Dalton Division of The Royal Chemical Society G.B.
- 1989 Honorary Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
- 1985 - 1986 President Chemistry Section - British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1974 - 1991 Royal Society Napier Research Professor at Oxford
- 1972 - 1974 Reader in Chemistry, Oxford University
- 1955 - 1972 Lecturer in Chemistry, Oxford University
- 1966 - 1972 Tutor in Biochemistry, Wadham College, Oxford University
- 1956 - 1966 Commonwealth Fellow, Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.
- 1955 - 1966 Tutor in Chemistry, Wadham College, Oxford
- 1951 - 1955 Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
- 1951 D.Phil. Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Metal ions and their function in biological systems
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Tilden Lecturer and Medallist, Chemical Society (England)
- 1972 Keilen Medal, Biochemical Society (England)
- 1972 Fellow of Royal Society (England)
- 1979 Liversidge Lecturer and Medallist Royal Society Chemistry (England)
- 1979 Hughes Medal, The Royal Society (England)
- 1980 Doctor of Science, University of Liege, Belgium
- 1980 Claire Brylants (Medal) University of Louvain
- 1981 Commemoration Lecturer, Biochemistry Institute, University of Zurich
- 1981 Foreign Member Lisbon Academy of Science
- 1981 Foreign Member Royal Society of Science, Liege
- 1984 Foreign Member Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- 1985 Sir Hans Krebs Medal European Biochemical Societies
- 1985 Hon.D.Sc. University of Leicester (England)
- 1986 Linderstrom-Lang Medal (Copenhagen)
- 1987 Sigillum Magnum (Medal) University of Bologna
- 1988 Heyrovsky Medal International Union of Biochemistry
- 1989 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Medal Biochemical Society (England)
- 1989 Foreign Member Czechoslovakian Academy of Science
- 1992 Hon. D.Sc. University of East Anglia (England)
- 1993 Hon. D.Sc. University of Keele (England)
- 1993 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1995 Royal Medal of The Royal Society
- 1996 Doctoris Honoris Causa, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
- 1997 Hon. Member of The European Calcium Society
- 1997 Hon. Member of The Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry
- 1997 Hon. Member of The British Biophysical Society
- 2002 Longstaff Medal of The Royal Society of Chemistry
