Sir Robert Hughes Williams, CBE , FRS , FLSW , HonFInstP (born 22 December 1941), commonly known as Robin Williams, is a Welsh physicist and academic, specialising in solid state physics and semiconductors. He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Swansea from 1994 to 2003. He had taught at the New University of Ulster and University of Wales, College of Cardiff, before joining Swansea. [1] [2] [3]
In 1990, Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the United Kingdom's national academy for the sciences. [4] In 2010, he was elected a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). [5]
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to education and to the community in Swansea [6] and knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to higher education, research and the Welsh language. [7]
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