Robert Hardin Williams (September 27, 1909, Savannah, Tennessee[1] – November 4, 1979) was a physician, specializing in endocrinology and diabetology.
He was from 1934 to 1935 a medical intern in pathology at Boston City Hospital,[1] where he was mentored in endocrinology by Fuller Albright and James Howard Means.
[1] In 1948 he resigned from Harvard Medical School to become the chair of the department medicine at the newly established University of Washington School of Medicine; he was the chair from 1948 to 1963 during the department's formative period.
His later research concentrated on diabetes, particularly insulin secretion and metabolism and its interaction with other hormonal substances.
[7] He was the editor of, and wrote seven chapters for, the 1973 book To Live and Die: When, Why, and How,[8][9] "which addressed the issues of euthanasia, suicide, population planning, organ transplantation, body-mind-soul interrelations, and the afterlife.