R. Stanley Williams is research scientist in the field of
nanotechnologyNanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.Nanotechnology is very diverse,...
and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research laboratory at HP. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending. At HP, he led a group that developed a working
solid stateSolid-state electronics are those circuits or devices built entirely from solid materials and in which the electrons, or other charge carriers, are confined entirely within the solid material...
version of Leon Chua's
memristorA memristor is any of various kinds of passive two-terminal circuit elements that maintain a functional relationship between the time integrals of current and voltage. This function, called memristance, is similar to variable resistance. Specifically engineered memristors provide controllable...
.
Williams earned a
bachelor's degreeA bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in chemical physics in 1974 from
Rice UniversityWilliam Marsh Rice University is a private coeducational research university located in Houston, Texas, United States...
and a
Ph.D.Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip* PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian organization...
in physical chemistry from the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
in 1978.
R. Stanley Williams is research scientist in the field of
nanotechnologyNanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.Nanotechnology is very diverse,...
and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research laboratory at HP. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending. At HP, he led a group that developed a working
solid stateSolid-state electronics are those circuits or devices built entirely from solid materials and in which the electrons, or other charge carriers, are confined entirely within the solid material...
version of Leon Chua's
memristorA memristor is any of various kinds of passive two-terminal circuit elements that maintain a functional relationship between the time integrals of current and voltage. This function, called memristance, is similar to variable resistance. Specifically engineered memristors provide controllable...
.
Williams earned a
bachelor's degreeA bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in chemical physics in 1974 from
Rice UniversityWilliam Marsh Rice University is a private coeducational research university located in Houston, Texas, United States...
and a
Ph.D.Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip* PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian organization...
in physical chemistry from the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
in 1978. After graduating, he worked at
Bell LabsBell Laboratories is the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Murray Hill, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities...
before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he served as a professor from 1980 to 1995. He then joined
HP LabsHP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for Hewlett-Packard. The lab has some 600 researchers in seven locations throughout the world....
and became the founding Director of its Quantum Science Research Initialitive, now called Information & Quantum Sciences Lab.
Read his latest article on Memristors on IEEE Spectrum
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/7024
Awards and honors
- Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.Nanotechnology is very diverse,...
(2000)
- Herman Bloch Medal for Industrial Research (2004)
- Julius Springer
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer is a worldwide publishing company focusing on books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in STM . Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 33,000 titles are available as e-books in 13 subject...
Prize for Applied Physics (2000)
- Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
The Glenn T. Seaborg Medal was first awarded in 1987 by the University of California at Los Angeles , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to Nobel prize winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a UCLA alumnus...
, UCLA (2007)