Robley Cook Williams (October 13, 1908 – January 3, 1995) was an early biophysicist and virologist.
Williams attended Cornell University on an athletic scholarship, completing a B.S.
While at Cornell, he was selected for membership in the Telluride House and the Quill and Dagger society.
A growing fascination with viruses led him to leave Michigan in 1950, when he was invited to the University of California, Berkeley by Wendell Stanley, to serve as a professor at the newly created Department of Virology.
[2] Working with Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff he helped develop a technique to take three-dimensional electron microscope images of bacteria using a "metal shadowing" technique.