Trevor I. Williams

Trevor Illtyd Williams (16 July 1921 – 12 October 1996) was a British chemist; a historian of science; a science author; and a journal editor. He sat on a number of science advisory committees, steering groups and related bodies.

Education Clifton College, Bristol. Queen's College, Oxford: BSc, MA, and DPhil on the isolation of helvolic acid and other antibiotics.

Career Williams was an author and the editor of a number of science journals and a member of several science advisory committees, steering groups and councils.

Author Trevor Williams was an author on a range of scientific topics, particularly chemistry. His most significant contribution is considered to be his A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (1968).

Editor Williams was editor of the following journals:

An Introduction to Chromatography, Blackie, London, 1946 Drugs from Plants, Sigma, London, 1947 The Soil and the Sea (ed), Saturn Press, 1949 The Chemical Industry Past and Present, Penguin, 1953 The Elements of Chromatography, Blackie and Son, 1954 A History of Technology: volumes I to V (ed), Oxford University Press, 1954–58 Alchemy, 1957 A Short History of Technology (with Thomas K Derry), Oxford University Press, 1960 Science and Technology: chapter III in New Cambridge Modern History, volume XI, Cambridge University Press, 1967 Alexander Findlay’s A Hundred Years of Chemistry (ed), 1965 A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (ed), A and C Black Ltd, 1968 & 1994 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, 1973 James Cook, Priory Press, 1974, Man the Chemist, Priory Press, 1976, A History of Technology, volumes VI and VII: The Twentieth Century (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978 A History of the British Gas Industry, Oxford University Press, 1981, A Short History of Twentieth Century Technology, Oxford University Press, 1982, European Research Centres (ed), 1982 This is Industrial Research in the United Kingdom: a Guide to Organisations and Programmes (ed), FT Pharmaceuticals, 1983, Howard Florey: penicillin and after, Oxford University Press, 1984, The Triumph of Invention, Little Brown Book Group, 1987, Robert Robinson, Chemist Extraordinary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990, Science: invention and discovery in the twentieth century, Chambers, 1990, Our Scientific Heritage: an A-Z of Great Britain and Ireland, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996,

Personal life Williams was born on 16 July 1921 in Bristol, the son of Illtyd Williams (a Physics lecturer at Bristol University) and Alma Mathilde Sohlberg.