Richard W. Jones

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birth_date = May 9, 1904
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death_date = February 26, 1987
death_place = Fort Myers, Florida
residence = USA
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fields = Biomedical engineer
workplaces = Northwestern University
alma_mater = University of Minnesota
Northwestern University
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academic_advisors = Walter S. Huxford
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Peter Dallos
Dudley S. Childress
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Richard ("Dick") Ward Jones was a biomedical engineer and authority on physiological control systems.

Education

His BS was from the University of Minnesota, 1926. His MS in physics was from Northwestern University, 1941, under Walter S. Huxford for a thesis entitled: "Discharge Across Very Small Gaps." [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=127184]

Career

Dick Jones worked at Northwestern University until his retirement in 1971, where he pioneered the biomedical engineering program there.

Honors

He was elected to Fellow of the IEEE in 1965, and his citation reads "For contributions in the fields of physiological control systems and biomedical engineering education."

elected Publications by Jones

* Christina Enroth-Cugell and Richard W. Jones, "Responses of retinal ganglion cells to exponentially increasing light stimuli," "Science", Vol. 134, No. 3493, pp. 1884-1885, 1961.

* Fred S. Grodins, John S. Gray, Karl R. Schroeder, Arthur L. Norins, and Richard W. Jones, "Respiratory responses to CO₂ inhalation. A theoretical study of a nonlinear biological regulator," "J. Appl. Physiol.", Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 283-308, 1954.

* Christina Enroth-Cugell and Richard W. Jones, "Responses of cat retinal ganglion cells to exponentially changig light intensities," "J. Neurophysiol.", Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 894-907, 1963.

Books by Jones

* Richard Ward Jones, "Electric Control Systems," Wiley, New York, 1953.

* Richard Ward Jones, "Principles of Biological Regulation; An Introduction to Feedback Systems," Academic Press, New York, 1973, ISBN 0123899508.

References

* "Past to present: a century of honors: the first one-hundred years of award winners, honorary members, past presidents, and fellows of the institute", IEEE (1984).
* Christina Enroth-Cugell, "Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University," Northwestern University [http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/docs/bme_history.pdf] .

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External links

* [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-3812968.html Chicago Sun Times obituary]
* [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/140/3566/461 Jones in Science Magazine]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=127184 Jones' math genealogy]