Biography:R. Stanley Williams

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Richard Stanley Williams (born 1951) is research scientist in the field of nanotechnology and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending.[1] At HP, he led a group that developed a working solid state version of Leon Chua's memristor.[2][3]

Williams earned a bachelor's degree in chemical physics in 1974 from Rice University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. After graduating, he worked at Bell Labs before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he served as a professor from 1980 to 1995. He then joined HP Labs as director of its Information and Quantum Systems Lab.[4]

Awards and honors

  • Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2000)
  • Herman Bloch Medal for Industrial Research (2004)
  • Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2000)[5]
  • Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, UCLA (2007)

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