Trevor I. Williams

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Trevor Illtyd Williams (born July 16, 1921 in Bristol , † October 12, 1996 ) was an English chemical historian.

Williams studied at Clifton College in Bristol and at Oxford University, where he received his degree in chemistry from Wilson Baker. From 1942 to 1945 he was a Nuffield Research Scholar and worked on penicillin and other antibiotics under Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Chain . He received his doctorate in 1945 . He began writing books on the history of the chemical industry and monographs on chromatography . From 1955 to 1996 he succeeded Eric J. Holmyard as editor of the ICI magazine Endeavor . From 1954 to 1958 he published the History of Technology at Oxford University Press, of which two additional volumes on the 20th century appeared in 1978 and of which he also edited an abridged edition with Thomas K. Derry. From 1968 he published several editions of the Biographical Dictionary of Scientists . He wrote biographies of Florey and Robert Robinson .

From 1962 to 1974 he was an academic advisor to ICI. From 1967 to 1974 he chaired the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry. From 1966 to 1974 he was co-editor of the Annals of Science and from 1972 to 1984 on the advisory board of the Science Museum in London.

In 1976 he received the Dexter Award .

Fonts

  • An Introduction to Chromatography, 1946
  • Drugs from Plants, 1947
  • Fifty Years of Progress: The Story of the Castner-Kellner Alkali Company, 1895-1945, 1947
  • The Chemical Industry, Past and Present, 1953
  • Published in: History of Technology, 7 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1954-1978
  • with Thomas K. Derry: A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to AD 1900, 1960
  • with Thomas K. Derry: A Short History of Twentieth Century Technology c.1900 – c.1950, 1982
  • The Elements of Chromatography 1956
  • with Alexander Findlay: A hundred years of chemistry, 1965
  • Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, 1968, 4th edition 1994
  • Florey, Penicillin and After, 1984
  • Robert Robinson, Chemist Extraordinary, 1990
  • A History of the British Gas Industry, 1981
  • Our Scientific Heritage - An A to Z of Great Britain and Ireland-Science, 1996

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SURNAME Williams, Trevor I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Trevor Illtyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemical historian and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1996