Frederic Calland Williams

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F.C. Williams
Born Frederic Calland Williams
(1911-06-26)26 June 1911
Stockport
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Manchester
Citizenship British
Nationality English
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Thesis Problems of spontaneous oscillation in electrical circuits (1936)
Doctoral students Tom Kilburn[1]
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Website
www.computer50.org/mark1/williams.html

Sir Frederic Calland Williams, CBE, FRS[2][3] (26 June 1911 in Stockport – 11 August 1977 in Manchester),[2][4] known as 'F.C. Williams' or (less often) 'Freddie Williams',[5] was an English engineer.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Education

Williams was educated at Stockport Grammar School and the University of Manchester where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. He went on to received his DPhil degree in 1936[12] after studying at Magdalen College, Oxford.[13]

Research

Working at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) he was a substantial contributor during World War II to the development of radar.[14]

In 1946 he was appointed as head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Manchester. There, with Tom Kilburn, he pioneered the first stored-program digital computer, the Manchester Mark 1 computer.[14]

Williams is also recognised for his invention of the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early memory device.[14]

Awards and honours

Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. His nomination reads <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

During the war F.C. Williams was the chief authority and the main source of ideas on the electrical circuits associated with many radar devices evolved at the Telecommunications Radio Establishment. Many of the extreme refinements of technique embodied in devices such as I.F.F., G.E.E. and Oboe, were due to him and were made possible by his deep knowledge of physical principles. Since the war he has developed successfully an electric storage tube for the proposed Manchester digital computing machine. The storage depends for its success on most delicate properties of wave form produced by electronic bombardment of a spot on a screen.[3]

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