Evan James Williams

Evan James Williams, FRS ( 1903 - 1945 )

Location: the house where Williams lived as a child, and where he died, near Swansea, South Wales

Unveiled: 12 May 1995 by Professor Vernon Morgan (Vice-President of the IOP)

Born: 8 June 1903

Died: 29 September 1945

At the early age of 27, Williams had obtained an MSc, a DSc and two PhDs and at 36 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. During the Second World War he worked in the Department of Naval Operational Research where it is recorded of him that, "no individual contributed more to the defeat of the U-Boat."

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