Robert M. Williams (born 1953, New York) received a B.A. in Chemistry (1975) from Syracuse
University where he conducted research with Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi, the Ph.D. (1979) at MIT (W.H.
Rastetter) and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard (1979-1980; R.B. Woodward/Yoshito Kishi). He
joined Colorado State University in 1980 and became a University Distinguished Professor in 2002.
Significant awards include the ACS Cope Scholars Award (2002) and the ACS Ernest Guenther Award
in the Chemistry of Natural Products (2011). His interdisciplinary research program (>280 publications)
at the chemistry-biology interface concerns the total synthesis, biosynthesis and the chemical biology of
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