Robert Williams (English chemist)

Bob Williams
MBE FRS
Born(1926-02-25)25 February 1926
Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Died21 March 2015(2015-03-21) (aged 89)
Oxford, England
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forIrving–Williams series
Spouse
Jelly Büchli
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(m. 1952)​
AwardsRoyal Medal
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAn investigation of the complex compounds of some metals (1950)
Doctoral advisorHarry Irving[2]
Doctoral students

Robert Joseph Paton Williams MBE FRS[5] (25 February 1926 – 21 March 2015[6]) was an English chemist, an Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford[7] and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford.[8][9][10][11]

  1. ^ B. L. Vallee & R. J. P. Williams (1968). "Metalloenzymes: the entatic nature of their active sites". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 59 (2): 498–505. Bibcode:1968PNAS...59..498V. doi:10.1073/pnas.59.2.498. PMC 224700. PMID 5238980.
  2. ^ Irving, H. M. N. H.; Williams, R. J. P. (1953). "The stability of transition-metal complexes". J. Chem. Soc.: 3192–3210. doi:10.1039/JR9530003192.
  3. ^ Day, Peter (1965). Light induced charge transfer in solids (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 944386301.
  4. ^ Perry, Carole Celia (1985). Silicification in biological systems. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863542406. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.354861. Free access icon
  5. ^ Hill, H. A. O.; Thomson, A. J. (2016). "Robert Joseph Paton Williams MBE. 25 February 1926 – 21 March 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 62. London: Royal Society: 541–570. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0020.
  6. ^ "Obituaries". University of Oxford Gazette. 145 (5093): 499. 23 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Bob Williams". Wadham College, University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  8. ^ Thomson, Andrew J (2015). "Professor Robert JP Williams FRS (25/2/1926–21/3/2015)". Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 20 (4): 617–618. doi:10.1007/s00775-015-1262-6. ISSN 0949-8257. PMID 25913871. S2CID 39414172.
  9. ^ Mann, Stephen; Thomson, Andrew J. (2015). "Robert J. P. Williams (1926–2015)". Angewandte Chemie. 127 (27): 7856. Bibcode:2015AngCh.127.7856M. doi:10.1002/ange.201504131. ISSN 0044-8249.
  10. ^ Anon (2015). "R J P Williams (1926–2015)". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016.
  11. ^ Robert Williams on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website