Evan James Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Evan James Williams

Welsh physicist

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1903

Place of Birth: Cwmsychbant, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1945

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Evan James Williams FRS (8 June 1903 – 29 September 1945) was a Welsh experimental physicist who worked in a number of fields with some of the most notable physicists of his day, including Patrick Blackett, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. Williams earned a degree at Swansea University, doctorates at Manchester and Cambridge universities and a professorship at Aberystwyth University.
He was highly regarded by his colleagues, and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939. He died of cancer at the age of 42.