Lawrence W. Jones
Lawrence W. Jones | |
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Born | Lawrence William Jones November 16, 1925 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | June 30, 2023 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 97)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | |
Awards | Ford Foundation Fellow, 1961 Guggenheim Fellow, 1964 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | High energy physics |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Thesis | Excitation function for photoneutron production from 80 to 320 mev (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | A. Carl Helmholz |
Notable students | Samuel C. C. Ting |
Lawrence William Jones (November 16, 1925 – June 30, 2023) was an American academic and professor emeritus in the physics department at the University of Michigan. His field of interest was high energy particle physics.
Early life and education
Lawrence W. Jones was born in Evanston, Illinois, on November 16, 1925.[1][2]
His father was C. Herbert Jones, a mathematics teacher at New Trier High School.[3][4] Lawrence Jones graduated from New Trier in 1943.[5]
Jones entered
Career
Jones worked his entire career at the University of Michigan, where he joined the physics faculty as an instructor in 1952. He became an assistant professor there in 1956 and associate professor in 1960. He was promoted to professor in 1963, and he served as physics department chair between 1982 and 1987.[7]
With Martin Perl, he was dissertation advisor to Samuel C. C. Ting in 1962.[8]
Research
Jones's research depended on and led to developments in particle accelerators and detectors.[7] In the 1950s, he collaborated in the Midwestern Universities Research Association, which developed the concept of colliding beams in modern particle accelerators.[9] He contributed to development of the scintillation chamber, optical spark chamber, and the ionization calorimeter for hadron energy measurement.[9] He participated in experiments on hadron cross-sections as well as elastic and inelastic scattering and production of particles, dimuons, neutrinos, and proton charm production.
In 1983, Jones joined in the
Regents of the University of Michigan named Jones professor emeritus of physics in 1998.[9]
Death
Jones died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 30, 2023, at the age of 97.[2]
Honors
Jones was a Ford Foundation Fellow (1961–1962) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1964–1965) at CERN in Switzerland.[7]
Selected publications
With four colleagues, he wrote Innovation was not Enough; the History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA), which World Scientific published in 2009, describing their work researching particle accelerator design between 1950–1960.[12][13]
Jones co-authored 369 publications and solo authored 6 papers.[14]
See also
References
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
- ^ a b "Lawrence W. Jones". Legacy. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
- ^ C.H. Jones, Longtime Teacher At New Trier, Chicago Tribune, April 30, 1987
- ^ Rhea Adler , Interviewer, C. Herbert Jones (1889-1987) oral history, Wilmette Public Library, June 15, 1977; see page 33 of transcript for discussion of L.W. Jones.
- ^ New Trier Township High School - Echoes Yearbook, Winnetka, IL, 1943; pages 68 and 117.
- ^ Lawrence W. Jones, Larry Jones – Recollections of WWII.
- ^ a b c d e f "BHL: Lawrence W. Jones papers 1952-2006". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Samuel C.C. Ting - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Memoir - Faculty History Project". The History of University of Michigan, 1817–2017. Anne Duderstadt. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Leslie Rogers, Lawrence W Jones, William H. Beierwaltes, Imaging In Nuclear Medicine With Incoherent Holography, Conference on Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine, May 1972; DOI: 10.1117/12.953674.
- hdl:2027.42/5800.
- ISBN 9789812832832.
- ^ "Emeritus - Physics - University of Michigan". www.lsa.umich.edu. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ "Jones, Lawrence W., (Spokesperson) - Profile - INSPIRE-HEP". inspirehep.net. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Lawrence W. Jones - Saturday Morning Physics (video, 59:38 minutes)
- The Lawrence W. Jones Collection (photos) in the AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives