Robert H. Williams
Robert H. Williams (born June 13, 1940 ) is an American physicist who was particularly concerned with energy policy.
Williams graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1967 . He was a post-graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder . In 1971 he became an assistant professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and from 1972 to 1975 he was a senior scientist in the Ford Foundation's Energy Policy Project . In 1974 he co-authored his influential final report, A Time to Choose. America's Energy Future . From 1975 he was at Princeton Universitywhere he led the Technology Assessment and Energy Policy Analysis Group and the Carbon Capture Group. He has been a Senior Research Scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute since 2001. In 2015 he was Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment (ACEE) at Princeton University.
Most recently, he has dealt with CO2 capture and storage and, in 2014, co- authored a study headed by Robert Watson Tackling the challenge of climate change: a near term actionable mitigation agenda with proposals, which was presented to the UN Secretary-General. He advocates cooperation between the US and China in such technologies and so-called clean coal industry technologies.
In 1993 he was a MacArthur Fellow . The laudation highlighted the fact that he showed that technologies for energy saving and renewable energies lead to a stimulation of economic development, more prosperity and more jobs, not only in industrialized countries, but also in the Third World and in China. In 1988 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award , in 1989 the Max Born Prize and in 1991 the Sadi Carnot Award of the DOE. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .
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- ↑ Birth and career data up to 2004 according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Williams, Robert H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1940 |