Dudley Williams

Francis Dudley Williams (April 12, 1912 – December 2, 2004) was an American physicist. He served as president of the Optical Society of America from 1976 to 1980.

Biography Williams was born to Ethel Turner and Arthur Dudley Williams in Covington, Georgia, on April 12, 1912. In 1927, he entered Oxford College of Emory University, at Oxford, Georgia. A family move prompted him to transfer to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1933.

Honors President of the Optical Society of American (1976–1980) Received Emory Medal in 2000 (awarded to notable Emory alumni) Named Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1955 Named Fellow of Oxford, United Kingdom (1956) Named National Science Foundation's senior post-doctoral fellow at University for Astrophysics at the University of Liege in Belgium and at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington in the United Kingdom (1961-1962)