About Dr. Rickey J. Williams
Dr. Rickey J. Williams, Ph.D., graduated college with a bachelor’s of chemistry from TCU in 1964 while also playing football for the Horned Frogs. Dr. Williams went directly into the TCU chemistry graduate program and finished his Ph.D. in 1968. From 1968 to 1970, he worked at Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico followed by a one-year post-doctorate position at Baylor University. Dr. Williams started working at Midwestern in August of 1971 and remained until 2002.
During his tenure, his research and publications were in transition metal chemistry with a focus on tin-related compounds. In 1972, he was awarded a Faculty research grant from the Robert A. Welch Foundation; and, he was one of the faculty that received the first Welch undergraduate research grant in 1984 which has since been renewed to this date. In 1978, he received the Hardin Award, MSU’s most prestigious faculty honor.
He was the department chair of chemistry from 1977 until 1984.
As an experienced chemist, he also began water testing for local companies as
new EPA regulations were being implemented. This provided a valuable service to
local industry, which he turned into a separate and very successful business,
North Texas Chemical Consultants, and later sold. He was also an active
member of the American Chemical Society.
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