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BBC Homepage Home Evan James 'Desin' Williams (1903-45) more from this section Last updated: 28 December 2006 Life Evan James 'Desin' Williams' The Jamie Owen Show in Lampeter ability to analyse problems Alister Hardy Archive Ask a Local helped win the battle against Audio Clip - Views on Lampeter German U-boats which had Chinese New Year BBC Local devastated British ships and Chinese feast for film-lovers Mid Wales cost many lives during World Clwb Cledlyn Club Things to do Reporter War 2. Conti's Cafe People & Places Denmark Farm Nature & Outdoors Fireball in the sky History Desin Williams was born in Cwmsychpant and went to From Nigeria to Lampeter Funny Business Religion & Ethics Primary School and Grammar School. Here For You Roadshow Arts & Culture History Society He was a brilliant user of quantum mechanics, predicting the Music I Love Lampeter existence of a new atomic particle, the meson. TV & Radio Ice Cream Nostalgia John Metcalf - Composer Local BBC Sites A brilliant physicist, E J Williams was invited to work with the Kinango Visit News giants of international physics of the day. He made himself King of the Road Sport Lampeter & District Floral Club and others try to visualise what was happening on an atomic Lampeter - Birthplace of Welsh Rugby? Weather scale. Lampeter Christian Orthodox Church Travel Lampeter Food Festival 2007 He worked with Professor W L Bragg at the University of Lampeter Ramblers Neighbouring Sites Lampeter Show 2007 North East Wales Manchester. His research there earned him his PhD. He then Lampeter Youth Club North West Wales attended Cambridge University receiving a PhD in 1929. This Lampeter's Llamas South East Wales was added to by a DSc Wales the following year. Llanybydder Horse Fair Local Historian South West Wales Longwood Community Woodland How we understand atomic collisions - X-rays passing through Related BBC Sites My faith - Catholicism Wales gases or the impact of fast electrons on atoms - still owes a My faith - methodism lot to E J Williams, even when now, 60 years later, new Noddfa Baptist Chapel Cymru particles have been discovered which Williams knew nothing Old Lampeter Businesses Canolbarth about. Opera Memoirs Postcards from Llanwnnen Stile at Sunrise He spent 1933 at the Niels Bohr Institute of Physics in Student Life Copenhagen. On his return, he became an Assistant Lecturer The Cyberman who fell to Earth at the University of Manchester, followed by a period as The Lamp The Toilet Paper Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Top Tips for Students Ty Agored Animal Sanctuary He was seconded to the Forces during the Second World War Union President 2007-08 where his ability to analyse problems helped win the battle Useful Info Vicky's path to Sikhism against the German U-boats which devastated British ships West Wales Shire Horse Show and cost many lives. His insight played an important part in What's in a Name? ultimately eliminating this enemy action. What's in a field name? Women In Tune In 1938, he was offered the Chair of Physics at the University Women's Workshop Your Say of Wales, , where he would remain until his death in 1945. related bbc.co.uk links Scifiles Back to Lampeter's Hall of Fame Index...

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Alan Rees Dessin is a relative of mine buried in Capel y Cwm cwmsychbant near to where my father and mother are buried [so will i]. My mother was very proud of him but what he did in the war is still clasified. Diolch dessin am dy fywyd a beth wnaethost i dy wlad. Thu Oct 18 09:08:12 2007

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