FELLOWSHIP AWARDED

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28210, 23 February 1957, Page 6

FELLOWSHIP AWARDED

Dr R. Williams, Of D.S.I.R. (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 22. Dr. R. M. Williams, a New Zealand scientist and a graduate of Canterbury College, who was seconded in 1944 as a mathematical phyiscist to the United Kingdom Ministry of Supply to work on the atomic project at the University of California and Oakridge, Tennessee, has .been awarded the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship for 1957. This was announced today by the chairman of the selection committee, Dr. G. A. Currie, who is vice-chancellor of the University of New Zealand. Dr. Williams will study developments in mathematical statistics with particular emphasis on their application to industrial problems and operational research. The fellowships, awarded for advanced academic study and travel in the United States, were inaugurated in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund, an American foundation. Academic Career

Dr. Williams, who has been Director of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, graduated with first-class honours in mathematics at Canterbury University College in 1940, and was awarded the Shirtcliff Fellowship and the Cook Memorial Prize for the same year. From 1941 to 1944, he was physicist in the Radio Development Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and in 1944 was seconded as mathematical physicist to the United Kingdom Ministry of Supply to work on atomic research in the United States. Dr. Williams secured first-class honours in mathematics at Cambridge in 1947, and his doctorate in a thesis on mathematical statistics in 1949. On his return to New Zealand in 1949, Dr. Williams joined the staff of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1954, he was appointed director of the laboratory. A keen tramper and mountaineer, Dr. Williams was secretary to the Canterbury University College Tramping and Mountaineering Club. He is married and has three children.

Post-Graduate Study In Britain (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 22. The two Shell post-graduate scholarships for 1957, each valued at £750 a year and tenable for two years at an English university, have been awarded to Mr W. I. McLean, M.Sc., of Dunedin, and Mr L. M. Delves, M.Sc., of Auckland. A Rotary Foundation fellowship had been awarded to Mr John Hubert Stubbs, of Oamaru. Mr Stubbs, who is 25, is a son of Dr. and Mrs E. S. Stubbs, of Oamaru. He was educated at the Waitaki Boys’ High School and the University of Otago where he graduated B.A. and LL.B. Mr Stubbs will study international law and jurisprudence at a university in Britain.