William Cochran (physicist)

William Cochran
FRS FRSE
William Cochran FRS FRSE
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Known for	X-ray crystallography
Awards	Hughes Medal ; 1978 ; Howard N. Potts Medal ; 1985 ; ;
	Scientific career
Fields	Crystallography
Institutions	University of Edinburgh; University of Cambridge;
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Beevers
Doctoral students	Roger Cowley; Richard Nelmes;

William (Bill) Cochran FRS FRSE (30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003)^[1] was a Scottish physicist. He is best known for "pioneering contributions to the science of X-ray crystallography", for which he was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1978.^[2]^[3]

^ Woolfson, Michael Mark (2005). "William Cochran. 30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003: Elected FRS 1962". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 51: 67. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2005.0005.
^ "William Cochran". The Franklin Institute. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
^ "Announcements". Nature. 277 (5698): 677. 1979. Bibcode:1979Natur.277..677.. doi:10.1038/277677a0. S2CID 216085372.

[1] Woolfson, Michael Mark (2005). "William Cochran. 30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003: Elected FRS 1962". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 51: 67. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2005.0005.

[franklin-2] "William Cochran". The Franklin Institute. Retrieved 12 December 2023.

[3] "Announcements". Nature. 277 (5698): 677. 1979. Bibcode:1979Natur.277..677.. doi:10.1038/277677a0. S2CID 216085372.

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