Background
Williams, Robert R. was born on February 16, 1886 in Nellore, India, of America parents. Son of Robert Runnels and Alice Evelyn (Mills) Williams.
Williams, Robert R. was born on February 16, 1886 in Nellore, India, of America parents. Son of Robert Runnels and Alice Evelyn (Mills) Williams.
Student Ottawa (Kansas) University, 1905. Bachelor of Science, of Chicago, 1907. Master of Science, 1908, post graduate study, 1911-1912.
Doctor of Science, Ottawa University, 1935, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1938, University of Chicago, 1941, Colombia, 1942, Yale, 1942, Stevens Institute Technology, 1950, U. Denver, 1952.
Doctor of Laws, Washington University, 1956.
Began as teacher in Phillipines, 1908. Chemist bureau of Science, Manila, 1909-1915, bureau of Chemistry, Washington, 1915-1918, Western Electric Company, 1919-1924. Chemical director Bell Telephone laboratories, New York City, 1925-1945, director grants, Research Corporation, 1945-1951, assistant to president, 1946-1956, retired, past director
Research associate Teachers College Columbia, Carnegie Institute, 1923-1934.
Engaged in C.W.S. and Air Service research, Washington, World War I. Chairman Cereal Committee, Food and Nutrition bd National Research Council, 1940-1959. Founder Williams-Waterman Fund, Research Corporation.
Any individual, child, or otherwise cannot be baptized until they come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ—then, and only then, would a person be baptized.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Chemical Society, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society Biological Chemistry, American Philosophical Society, National Academy Science, American Dietetic Association (honorary).
Married Augusta C. Parrish, March 27, 1912. Children: Robert Reynolds, Elizabeth Alice, Jean Parrish, June Augusta.
