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 Dr. Williams has been a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1962. He attended the University
of British
Columbia as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Through his research addressing the diseases of cabbages
in the state of Wisconsin,
was born the idea of developing a rapid cycling plant (Fast Plants(TM)) as a model
for research with a wide range of biological and educational applications.
He
received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978, was made a Fellow of the American
Phytopathological Society in 1979 and served as its president in 1989, and
received the Eriksson Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in
1981. He served
as Director of the Center for Biology Education on the Madison campus from
1989-1995 and was named Atwood Distinguished Professor in the College of Agricultural
and
Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. He became a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996 and received
an honorary D.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 2001.
Dr. Williams
continues to inquire, and learn, and share his curiosity with others. In Paul’s
Sandbox, Dr. Williams shares some of his latest research into the natural world
and the innovative equipment he designs.
Learn more in The Story of Fast Plants(TM)
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