Evan James Williams
eBook - ePub

Evan James Williams

Atomic Physicist

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Evan James Williams

Atomic Physicist

About this book

This book presents the life and work of Professor Evan James Williams, described as one of Wales's most eminent scientists. Williams played a prominent part in the early twentieth-century revolution in physics with the emergence of quantum science, and was an able experimentalist and accomplished theoretician who made notable contributions in atomic physics and the discovery of a new elementary particle. From humble beginnings in rural Cardiganshire, his stellar career is charted in this book as he climbed the academic ladder at a number of universities, culminating in his appointment as Professor of Physics at Aberystwyth, and election to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. During the Second World War, Williams was instrumental in applying Operational Research to thwart the threat of German submarines in the Atlantic; his career was cut short, however, by his early death in 1945.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Series Editor’s Foreword
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. 1. ‘I have a dream’
  10. 2. Shaking the foundations
  11. 3. Doctorates
  12. 4. New horizons
  13. 5. Achieving eminence
  14. 6. Securing the seas
  15. 7. Hope unfulfilled
  16. 8. Epilogue
  17. Notes
  18. List of publications by Evan James Williams
  19. Bibliography

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