(1763) Williams

1953 TN₂. Discovered 1953 Oct. 13 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn, Indiana.

Named in honor of K. P. Williams, professor of mathematics at Indiana University (1909–58). He was known for his textbook The calculation of the orbits of asteroids and comets and his detailed analysis of the transits of Mercury from 1723 to 1927. He also wrote Lincoln finds a general, a definitive military history of the U.S. Civil War. (M 3143)

Proposed by F. K. Edmondson.