Professor Jim F Williams
- Position
- Professor of Physics
- Institution
- University of Western Australia
- Expertise
- Atomic, molecular and chemical physics
- Electron, ion, atom structure and quantum dynamics
- Low energy electron scattering from surfaces and thin films
- Polarisation of photons and quantum particles
- Technology and instrumentation
- jfw@physics.uwa.edu.au
- Research in the Centre
- After MSc, Dip Ed at the University of New England and PhD (ANU) in 1965, research at AERE Lucas Heights; a Canadian National Research Fellowship at Laval University, Quebec; nuclear reactor and atomic physics at General Atomic in San Diego; Reader in Physics at Queens University Belfast for 10 years, Jim has been Professor of Physics at the University of Western Australia since 1980. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1966) and a Fellow of the Academy of Science (1998). Current interests include: spin-dependent interactions; the structure of free atoms, thin films and surfaces; quantum phenomena; electron scattering dynamics; electron correlations and polarisation phenomena; electron and positron spectroscopy; scientific instrumentation.
