Frederic Calland Williams
Sir Frederic Calland Williams (born June 26, 1911 in Stockport , † August 11, 1977 in Manchester ) was an English engineer .
He attended the University of Manchester and received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1936 . During World War II he worked at the Telecommunications Research Establishment on developing the radar . Together with Tom Kilburn , at the University of Manchester, he developed the first stored-program computer that holds both the program and data in shared memory ( Von Neumann architecture ). He is known for developing the Williams tube and the Manchester Mark I computer . From 1946 until his death in 1977 he was director of the University of ManchesterElectrical Engineering Department , from which the Computer Group and later the Department of Computer Science emerged.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1950), received the Hughes Medal (1963), the Faraday Medal from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1972) and the Pioneer Award from the IEEE (1972). An honors he received the OBE (1945), the CBE (1961) and in 1976 for Knight Bachelor beaten.
literature
- Kurt Jäger, Friedrich Heilbronner: Lexicon of electrical engineers . 2nd revised and expanded edition. VDE-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 ( table of contents, 125 kB [PDF]).
Web links
- Biography (English)
- Today in Science History: Frederick Williams (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williams, Frederic Calland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Williams, Freddie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockport |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1977 |
| Place of death | Manchester |