Heather Williams

Heather Williams (born 1955 in Spokane, Washington) is an American ornithologist and professor at Williams College since 1988. As of October 2025, she is the Visiting Professor of Neuroscience and William Dwight Whitney Professor of Biology, Emerita at Williams. She graduated from Bowdoin College with an A.B. in biology in 1977, from Rockefeller University with a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1985, and was postdoctoral fellow, Field Research Center. She was a 1993 MacArthur Fellow. Williams' most notable work highlights bird song data gathered on Kent Island, also known as the "Bowdoin Science Station".

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