Dudley Williams (biochemist)

Dudley Williams
FRS
Born
Dudley Howard Williams

(1937-05-25)25 May 1937
Farsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died3 November 2010(2010-11-03) (aged 73)
Cambridge, England
EducationPudsey Grammar School
Alma materLeeds University (BSc, 1958 PhD, 1961)
SpouseLorna Patricia Phyllis Bedford
Children2
AwardsSee list
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Organic Chemistry
InstitutionsCambridge
Doctoral advisorBasil Lythgoe
Other academic advisorsCarl Djerassi
Doctoral studentsJeremy 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]

  1. ^ "Professor Dudley Williams ScD, FRS 1937 – 2010". University of Cambridge. 15 November 2010.
  2. ^ Sanders, Jeremy K. M.; Robinson, Dame Carol V. (31 December 2017). "Dudley Howard Williams. 25 May 1937 — 3 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 567–583. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0009.
  3. ^ Watts, Geoff (2011). "Dudley Howard Williams". The Lancet. 377 (9760): 120. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60010-X. S2CID 54389359.