Frederic Calland Williams

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Frederic Calland Williams
Born (1911-06-26)26 June 1911
Stockport
Died 11 August 1977(1977-08-11) (aged 66)
Manchester
Nationality English
Citizenship British

Sir Frederic Calland Williams, CBE, FRS (26 June 1911 Stockport – 11 August 1977 Manchester),[1][2] known as 'F.C. Williams' or (less often) 'Freddie Williams',[3] was an English engineer.

Williams attended the University of Manchester, and received his doctorate in 1936 after studying at Magdalen College, Oxford.[4]

Working at the Telecommunications Research Establishment he was a substantial contributor during World War II to the development of radar.

Computers

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

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kilburn, T.; Piggott, L. S. (1978). "Frederic Calland Williams. 26 June 1911-11 August 1977". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 24: 583. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1978.0020. 
  2. ↑ "Corrigenda: Frederic Calland Williams. 26 June 1911-11 August 1977". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 25: 0–1. 1979. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1979.0001. 
  3. ↑ "Frederric Calland Williams". 
  4. ↑ "Williams, Prof. Sir Frederic (Calland)". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 

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