Dudley Williams FRS | |
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Born | Dudley Howard Williams 25 May 1937 Farsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Died | 3 November 2010 Cambridge, England | (aged 73)
Education | Pudsey Grammar School |
Alma mater | Leeds University (BSc, 1958 PhD, 1961) |
Spouse | Lorna Patricia Phyllis Bedford |
Children | 2 |
Awards | See list |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry Organic Chemistry |
Institutions | Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Basil Lythgoe |
Other academic advisors | Carl Djerassi |
Doctoral students | Jeremy K M Sanders Carol Bradley Chris Hunter |
Dudley Howard Williams FRS (25 May 1937 – 3 November 2010) was a British biochemist known for utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry in the study of molecular structure, especially the antibiotic vancomycin.[1][2][3]