Heather Williams (biologist)

Heather Williams (born 1955 in Spokane, Washington) is an American ornithologist, and professor at Williams College.[1][2]

She graduated from Bowdoin College with an A.B. in Biology in 1977, from Rockefeller University with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1985, and was Postdoctoral fellow, Field Research Center. She was a 1993 MacArthur Fellow

Works

  • Behavioral neurobiology of birdsong, Editors Harris Philip Zeigler, Peter Marler, New York Academy of Sciences, 2004, ISBN 978-1-57331-472-5

References

  1. ↑ http://www.williams.edu/Biology/Faculty_Staff/hwilliams/hwilliams.shtml
  2. ↑ "She knows why the caged bird sings Heather Williams studies the secrets of bird song", The Boston Globe, M. R. Montgomery, August 26, 1993
  • "Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of Darwinian Theory", ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2009)
  • Essel Program, Annual Report 2002
  • Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary, Editors Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara Smith Shearer, Greenwood Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29302-3


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