Robin Williams (physicist)

Professor Sir Robin Williams
13th Chancellor of Bangor University
Assumed office
2022
Preceded byGeorge Meyrick
Vice Chancellor of Swansea University
Preceded byBrian Clarkson (Principal)
Succeeded byRichard Davies
Personal details
Born
Robert Hughes Williams

(1941-12-22) December 22, 1941

Sir Robert Hughes Williams, CBE, FRS, FLSW, HonFInstP (born 22 December 1941), commonly known as Robin Williams, is a Welsh physicist and academic specialising in solid state physics and semiconductors, and Chancellor of Bangor University.

He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Swansea from 1994 to 2003, and taught at the New University of Ulster and University of Wales, College of Cardiff before then.