Professor Sir Ewart (Tim) Jones, (1911-2002)
Michael Rhodes
short illness, aged 91, was Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Oxford, 1955-78, Emeritus, 1978-2002.
He was born 16 March, 1911, at Wrexham, Denbighshire, and educated at
Grove Park School there, and the University College of North Wales,
Bangor, & at the University of Manchester.
Fellow of the University of Wales, 1935-37; Lecturer, Imperial College
of Science & Technology, 1938; Reader in Organic Chemistry, University
of London, and assistant professor, 1945.
He was the Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry, University of
Manchester, 1947-55; Arthur D. Little Visiting Professor of Chemsitry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952; Karl Folkers Lecturer at
the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin, 1957; Andrews Lecturer,
University of New South Wales, 1960.
Jones was a Member of the Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, and Chairman of the Research Grants Committee, 1961-65;
Member Science Research Council & Chairman of the University Science &
Technology Board, 1969-72.
He was Tilden Lectuer, at the Chemical Society, 1949, Pedler Lecturer,
1959, and & Robert Robinson Lecturer, 1978.
He received many honours including FRS (1950), DSc Victoria, PhD
Wales, MA Oxford &c.
He married in 1937, Frances Mary Copp, by whom he had one son,
Charles, & two daughters, Felicity and Celia.
Lady Jones died in 1999.
Michael Rhodes
> Professor Sir Ewart Ray Herbert (Tim) Jones, FRS, who has died after a
> short illness, aged 91, was Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the
> University of Oxford, 1955-78, Emeritus, 1978-2002.
I am told that Ewart Jones gave his name to *Jones Oxidation* - the
chromic acid oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones in acetone.