Professor Sir Robin Williams | |
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13th Chancellor of Bangor University | |
Assumed office 2022 | |
Preceded by | George Meyrick |
Vice Chancellor of Swansea University | |
Preceded by | Brian Clarkson (Principal) |
Succeeded by | Richard Davies |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Hughes Williams December 22,1941 |
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,and Chancellor of Bangor University.
He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales,Swansea from 1994 to 2003,and taught at the New University of Ulster and University of Wales,College of Cardiff before then. [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]