# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alwyn-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:45:41.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alwyn-williams"
name: "Alwyn Williams"
slug: "alwyn-williams"
description: "Sir Alwyn Williams was a Welsh geologist, who was Principal of the University of Glasgow from 1976 to 1988, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1985 to 1988."
tagline: "British geologist (1921–2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-06-08"
deathDate: "2004-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.002124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams"
    title: "Alwyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "الوين ويليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams_(gwyddonydd)"
    title: "Alwyn Williams (gwyddonydd)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams"
    title: "Alwyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams_(geologist)"
    title: "Alwyn Williams (geologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams_(g%C3%A9ologue)"
    title: "Alwyn Williams (géologue)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams"
    title: "Alwyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Williams"
    title: "Alwyn Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449926"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump