Robert H. Williams (physicist)

For the American military officer, see Robert H. Williams (soldier).

Robert H. Williams
Robert H. Williams, 2013
Alma mater	Yale University University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Max Born Medal and Prize MacArthur Fellows Program Volvo Environment Prize
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Michigan Ford Foundation Princeton Environmental Institute

Robert H. Williams is a senior research scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University.

He graduated from Yale University with a BS in physics in 1962, and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD, in theoretical plasma physics, in 1967. He taught at University of Michigan, Physics Department, in 1970. In 1972, he became Chief Scientist of the Ford Foundation's Energy Policy Project.

Awards

• 1988 Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest
• 1989 Max Born Medal and Prize
• 1991 Sadi Carnot Award
• 1993 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2000 Volvo Environment Prize

Works

• "A Renewables-Intensive Global Energy Scenario", Renewable energy: sources for fuels and electricity, Editors Thomas B. Johansson, Laurie Burnham, Island Press, 1993, ISBN 978-1-55963-138-9