Frederic C. Williams
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Sir Frederic Calland Williams, Template:Post-nominals[1][2] (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977),[1][3] known as F.C. Williams or Freddie Williams,[4] was an English engineer, a pioneer in radar and computer technology.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Education
Williams was born in Romiley, Stockport, and educated at Stockport Grammar School.[1] He gained a scholarship to study engineering at the University of Manchester where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1936[11] for research carried out as a postgraduate student of Magdalen College, Oxford.[12]
Research and career
Working at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), Williams was a substantial contributor during World War II to the development of radar.[13]
In 1946 he was appointed as head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Manchester. There, with Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, he built the first electronic stored-program digital computer, the Manchester Baby.[13]
Williams is also recognised for his invention of the Williams tube, an early memory device.[13] He supervised the research of his PhD students Richard Grimsdale[14] and Tom Kilburn.[15]
Awards and honours
Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1950. His nomination reads Template:Centered pull quote
Personal life
Williams died in Manchester in 1977, aged 66.
References
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- ↑ Anderson David, Delve Janet (2007) Frederic Calland Williams: the Manchester Baby's chief engineer IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 29 (4): 90-102
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