Robert Hardin Williams

Robert Hardin Williams (September 27, 1909, Savannah, Tennessee – November 4, 1979) was a physician, specializing in endocrinology and diabetology. He was the 49th President of The Endocrine Society.

Biography After growing up and graduating from high school in Savannah, Tennessee, Robert H. Williams graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1929 from Washington and Lee University and an M.D. in 1934 from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was from 1934 to 1935 a medical intern in pathology at Boston City Hospital, with a second edition in 1955 and many subsequent editions. The Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 14th revised edition, was published in 2020. He was the editor of, and wrote seven chapters for, the 1973 book To Live and Die: When, Why, and How, "which addressed the issues of euthanasia, suicide, population planning, organ transplantation, body-mind-soul interrelations, and the afterlife."

He married in 1941 and became the father of several children.

Selected publications