Trevor Illtyd Williams

Clifton College, Bristol. Queen's College, Oxford: BSc, MA, and DPhil on the isolation of helvolic acid and other antibiotics. == Career ==

Williams was an author and the editor of a number of science journals and a member of several science advisory committees, steering groups and councils. Author Trevor Williams was an author on a range of scientific topics, particularly chemistry. His most significant contribution is considered to be his A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (1968). Editor Williams was editor of the following journals: • Endeavour, (deputy editor then editor), 1945–94 • Annals of Science, (editor), 1966–74 • Outlook on Agriculture, (editor), 1982–89 Other posts He was appointed by ICI Ltd as an Academic Relations Advisor, 1962–74, where he was involved in the distribution of postdoctoral fellowships and research grants, and took part in negotiations between universities, industry and government. Williams was a member of the following organisations: • Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, chair, 1967–86 • English Language Book Society, Steering Committee member, 1984–90 • Science Museum, advisory Council member, 1972–84 • World List of Scientific Periodicals, chair, 1966–88 • Council of University College Swansea, member, 1965–83 == Awards and achievements ==

Williams received the Dexter Award of the American Chemical Society in 1976, for his contribution to the history of chemistry. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). == Publications ==

Williams was the author of the following books: • An Introduction to Chromatography, Blackie, London, 1946 • Drugs from Plants, Sigma, London, 1947 • The Soil and the Sea (ed), Saturn Press, 1949 • The Chemical Industry Past and Present, Penguin, 1953 • The Elements of Chromatography, Blackie and Son, 1954 • A History of Technology: volumes I to V (ed), Oxford University Press, 1954–58 • Alchemy, 1957 • A Short History of Technology (with Thomas K Derry), Oxford University Press, 1960 • Science and Technology: chapter III in New Cambridge Modern History, volume XI, Cambridge University Press, 1967 • Alexander Findlay’s A Hundred Years of Chemistry (ed), 1965 • A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (ed), A and C Black Ltd, 1968 & 1994 • Alfred Bernhard Nobel, 1973 • James Cook, Priory Press, 1974, • Man the Chemist, Priory Press, 1976, • A History of Technology, volumes VI and VII: The Twentieth Century (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978 • A History of the British Gas Industry, Oxford University Press, 1981, • A Short History of Twentieth Century Technology, Oxford University Press, 1982, • European Research Centres (ed), 1982 • This is Industrial Research in the United Kingdom: a Guide to Organisations and Programmes (ed), FT Pharmaceuticals, 1983, • Howard Florey: penicillin and after, Oxford University Press, 1984, • The Triumph of Invention, Little Brown Book Group, 1987, • Robert Robinson, Chemist Extraordinary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990, • Science: invention and discovery in the twentieth century, Chambers, 1990, • Our Scientific Heritage: an A-Z of Great Britain and Ireland, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996, == Personal life ==

Williams was born on 16 July 1921 in Bristol, the son of Illtyd Williams (a Physics lecturer at Bristol University) and Alma Mathilde Sohlberg. == References ==