James Cook: Scientist and explorer

by Trevor Illtyd Williams

96 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Trevor Williams was educated at Bristol’s Clifton College and at Queens College, Oxford. He was Nuffield Research Scholar during 1942–1945, working with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain on penicillin and other antibiotics. From 1945 until 1996 Williams worked for the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) journal Endeavour, serving as the editor for four decades.