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Forman A. Williams

American academic
Person human Q29453155

Facts

19 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[20]
Date of birth
January 12, 1934, 1934[5]
Place of birth
New Brunswick
Country of citizenship
United States[6]
Occupation
engineer, physicist
Employer
University of California, San Diego[10]
Field of work
physics, physical chemistry, thermodynamics[7][8][9]
Educated at
Princeton University, California Institute of Technology[11][12]
Award received
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University[14][15][16][17][18]
Official website
maeresearch.ucsd.edu, jacobsschool.ucsd.edu[37][38]
Doctoral advisor
Stanford Solomon Penner[13]
Doctoral student
Chung K. Law, Kalyanasundaram Seshadri, Antonio Luis Sánchez, Carlos Fernández-Pello, Manuel Kindelan-Segura, Wilson P. Robert, Christiane M. Guirao, Franklin J. Kodson, Guy Lengellé, Lakshminarayan Krishnamurthy, Tohru Mitani, Siavash Sohrab, Indrek Wichman, Paul Antaki, Harsha Chelliah, Benjamin Shaw, Shui-Chi Li, Ralph Aldredge III, Jong Soo Kim, Ganeshan Balakrishnan, John Michael Card, Maria Jason-Rightley, John Hewson, Bai Li Zhang, Alexander Telengator, Balachandar Varatharajan, Craig Eastwood, Chris Varga, Melissa Ackerman, Maria Petrova, Gonzalo Del Alamo, Pryiank Saxena, Zuhair Ibrahim, Javier Urzay, Michael Gollner, Adam Daniel Weiss, Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Vaishali Amin, Yuanjie Jiang[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English
Family name
Williams[35]
Given name
Forman[36]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics[19]
Name in native language
Forman Arthur Williams
🏷️ Also known as
en Forman Arthur Williams en Forman A. Williams cs F. A. Williams fr Forman Williams ru Вильямс, Форман Артур ru Форман Артур Вильямс
🔖 Identifiers · 30
ISNI
0000000110353326
VIAF cluster ID
2532021
Library of Congress authority ID
n80073572
GND ID
172452678
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Forman A. Williams.jpg ↗
Academic Tree ID
29702
BIBSYS ID
90095162
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12275908p
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf11277637
CiNii Research ID
1140282266717431168
Freebase ID
/m/0_mvpv3
Guggenheim fellows ID
forman-arthur-williams
Show all 30 identifiers +18
IdRef ID
072234164
Libraries Australia ID
35609629
MR Author ID
183145
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
147271
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00474537
NDL Authority ID
00477259
NL CR AUT ID
zcu2015891991
NUKAT ID
n2005104076
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007453928005171
National Library of Lithuania ID
LNB:CkAy;=B4
National Virtual Library of India ID
166758
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
321349105
Prabook ID
798777
RERO ID (legacy)
A003977040
SHARE Catalogue author ID
13554
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJfRCdGVtjg43JpJBhcHG3
Yale LUX ID
person/39e6eaaa-ed06-4685-bad6-777057a6e0d4
ZbMATH author ID
williams.forman-a

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Summary

Forman A. Williams was born on January 12, 1934[1], in New Brunswick[2]. He has worked as an engineer[3] and physicist[4].

FAQs

Where was Forman A. Williams born?

Forman A. Williams was born in New Brunswick[2].

What did Forman A. Williams do for work?

Forman A. Williams worked as an engineer[3] and physicist[4].

Where did Forman A. Williams go to school?

Forman A. Williams was educated at Princeton University[11] and California Institute of Technology[12].

What awards did Forman A. Williams receive?

Honors received include Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics[14], Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics[15], Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[16], and Guggenheim Fellowship[17].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . IdRef. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  5. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . siam.org. Retrieved . siam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Guggenheim Fellows database. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [13] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  18. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [22] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  20. [23] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  21. [24] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  22. [25] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  23. [26] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  24. [27] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  25. [28] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  26. [29] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  27. [30] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  28. [31] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  29. [32] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  30. [33] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  31. [34] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  32. [19] ↑ . siam.org. Retrieved . siam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [5] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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