# Edwin Ross Williams

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'''Edwin Ross Williams''' (born 1942)<ref name="IEEE">{{cite journal |last1= Steiner |first1= Richard L. |last2= Newell |first2= David B. | last3= Williams | first3= Edwin R. |date= April 1999 |title= A Result from the NIST Watt Balance and an Analysis of Uncertainties |url= http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=11025 |journal= [IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement](/source/IEEE_Transactions_on_Instrumentation_and_Measurement) |volume= 48 |issue= 2 |pages= 205–208 |access-date= 10 May 2017|doi= 10.1109/19.769564 }}</ref> is a [physicist](/source/physicist) at the [National Institute of Standards and Technology](/source/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology). He received a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [Nebraska Wesleyan University](/source/Nebraska_Wesleyan_University) in 1964, an [M.S.](/source/M.S.) in physics from [University of Colorado Boulder](/source/University_of_Colorado_Boulder) in 1966, and a [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) from [Wesleyan University](/source/Wesleyan_University) in 1970.<ref name="IEEE" />

Williams was awarded the status of fellow<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/|title=APS Fellowship|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}}</ref> in the [American Physical Society](/source/American_Physical_Society)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}}</ref> in 1994, after being nominated by the Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science for "excellence in [measurement](/source/measurement) research leading to an upper limit or the [rest mass](/source/rest_mass) of the [photon](/source/photon) and precision determination of the [gyromagnetic ratio](/source/gyromagnetic_ratio) of the [proton](/source/proton) and of the [fine-structure constant](/source/fine-structure_constant), and for leadership in highly accurate realizations of the base electrical units, the [ampere](/source/ampere), [volt](/source/volt), [ohm](/source/ohm), and [farad](/source/farad)."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1994&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellows 1994|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}}</ref>

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