Stanley Williams received the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal

Stanley Williams is one of five active HP Senior Fellows and the founding director of the HP Quantum Science Research group (QSR), a team of more than 50 scientists and engineers working in areas of fundamental physical sciences. Williams is currently the interim director of Advanced Studies at HP Labs.

Dr. Williams has researched the areas of solid-state chemistry and physics and their applications for the past 30 years. The work has involved nanostructures and chemically assembled materials. His emphasis has been on the thermodynamics of size and shape and more generally in the fundamental limits of computing. Currently he is focusing on possibilities of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.

Glenn T. Seaborg Medal is awarded by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to honor individuals for exceptional scientific contributions to chemistry and biochemistry. The previous Glenn T. Seaborg Medal winners include Nobel laureates and winners of the U.S. National Medal of Science. E.g. the inventor of buckyballs, late Professor Richard E. Smalley received the award in 2002.

You can view the full biography of Stanley Williams and hear his presentation in Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 in the Nanoelectronics session.

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