Robert Joseph Paton Williams MBE FRS (born 1926) is an English chemist and an Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College as well as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. He was elected Fellow of The Royal Society in 1972 and is a Foreign Member of the Swedish, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian and Belgian science academies. He is a medallist of the Biochemical Society (twice), the Royal Society (twice), the Royal Society of Chemistry (three times), the European Biochemical Societies (twice) and the International Union of Biochemistry. He won the Royal Medal in 1995.[1]
Williams was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to the community in North Oxford.[2]