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]

Honours

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]

Selected works

• Rhoderick, E. H.; Williams, R. H. (1988). Metal-semiconductor contacts (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198593355.
• Morgan, D. V.; Williams, R. H., eds. (1991). Physics and technology of heterojunction devices. Stevenage: Peter Peregrinus. ISBN 9780863412042.
• Davies, G. J.; Williams, R. H. (1994). Semiconductor growth, surfaces, and interfaces (1st ed.). London: Published by Chapman & Hall for the Royal Society. ISBN 9780412577307.