Richard A. Jones (physicist)
Professor of Physics and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Richard Jones
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Richard Anthony Lewis Jones
1961 (age 61 – 62) [1] [2] |
Education | Denstone College [1] |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
Known for | Soft Condensed Matter [3] |
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Soft matter [3] Science policy [5] |
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Thesis | Mutual diffusion in miscible polymer blends (1987) |
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Richard Anthony Lewis Jones (born 1961) [1] [2] FRS [6] is professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at the University of Manchester having been professor of physics at the University of Sheffield until 2020. [7] [4] [8] [9]
Education
Jones was educated at Denstone College [1] and St Catharine's College, Cambridge , where he studied the Natural Sciences Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics 1983. [1] He continued his study at the University of Cambridge where his PhD investigated diffusion in polymer blends . [10]
Career and research
After postdoctoral research at Cornell University , he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Cambridge based at the Cavendish Laboratory [1] and in 1998 was appointed a professor at the University of Sheffield. [11]
Jones' research [4] [8] investigates the physics of Polymers and Biopolymers at surfaces and interfaces , with implications for polymer blends. [6] [3] He pioneered the use of ion beam methods to study the segregation of one component to the surface of a blend. [6] This in turn led to experiments on capillary wave broadening of interfaces, using neutron reflectivity . [6] His experiments on the thickness-dependence of Glass transitions [12] in thin films has stimulated a new research field. [6] [13] He has extended his studies to the denaturation of proteins at interfaces, demonstrating how the surface hydrophilicity has a strong effect, with implications for problems ranging from fouling to disease. [6] [14]
In 2018 he co-authored The Biomedical Bubble [5] with James Wilsdon [ Wikidata ] , which argued that United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) needs a greater diversity of priorities, politics, places and people. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
In 2020, Jones moved to Manchester. [20]
Awards and honours
Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2006 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge". [6]
In 2008 he won the Institute of Physics David Tabor Medal and Prize . [21]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anon (2017). "Jones, Prof. Richard Anthony Lewis" . Who's Who (online ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi : 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U151439 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 Richard Jones at Library of Congress
- 1 2 3 Jones, Richard A. L. (2002). Soft Condensed Matter . Oxford University Press . ISBN 9780198505891 .
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- 1 2 Jones, Richard A. J.; Wilsdon, James (2018). "The Biomedical Bubble" . nesta.org.uk . Nesta .
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- ↑ Sheffield, University of. "Richard Jones – Contacts – Physics and Astronomy – The University of Sheffield" . University of Sheffield.
- 1 2 Richard A. Jones publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ↑ "Soft Machines – Some personal views on nanotechnology, science and science policy from Richard Jones" . softmachines.org .
- ↑ Jones, Richard Anthony Lewis (1987). Mutual diffusion in miscible polymer blends . jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 499164519 . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.233254 .
- ↑ "About Richard Jones – Soft Machines" . softmachines.org .
- ↑ Keddie, J. L; Jones, R. A. L; Cory, R. A (1994). "Size-Dependent Depression of the Glass Transition Temperature in Polymer Films". Europhysics Letters (EPL) . 27 (1): 59–64. Bibcode : 1994EL.....27...59K . doi : 10.1209/0295-5075/27/1/011 . ISSN 0295-5075 . S2CID 250841160 .
- ↑ Jones, Richard A. L.; Norton, Laura J.; Kramer, Edward J.; Bates, Frank S.; Wiltzius, Pierre (1991). "Surface-directed spinodal decomposition". Physical Review Letters . 66 (10): 1326–1329. Bibcode : 1991PhRvL..66.1326J . doi : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1326 . ISSN 0031-9007 . PMID 10043177 .
- ↑ Howse, Jonathan R.; Jones, Richard A. L.; Ryan, Anthony J.; Gough, Tim; Vafabakhsh, Reza; Golestanian, Ramin (2007). "Self-Motile Colloidal Particles: From Directed Propulsion to Random Walk". Physical Review Letters . 99 (4): 048102. arXiv : 0706.4406 . Bibcode : 2007PhRvL..99d8102H . doi : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.048102 . ISSN 0031-9007 . PMID 17678409 . S2CID 16932092 .
- ↑ Anon (2018). "Editorial: UK life science research: time to burst the biomedical bubble" . The Lancet . 392 (10143): 187. doi : 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31609-X . PMID 30043738 .
- ↑ Ahuja, Anjana (2018). "Britain must stop inflating the biomedical bubble" . Financial Times . (subscription required)
- ↑ Jones, Richard A. J.; Wilsdon, James (2018). "It's time to burst the biomedical bubble in UK research" . The Guardian .
- ↑ Jones, Richard A. J.; Wilsdon, James (2018). "Rethinking the life sciences strategy" . wonkhe.com .
- ↑ Watt, Fiona (2018). "Popping the bubble" . insight.mrc.ac.uk . Medical Research Council . Archived from the original on 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "New Chair in Materials Physics and Innovation Policy" . University of Manchester . Retrieved 14 April 2020 .
- ↑ "2008 Tabor Medal and Prize" . Institute of Physics . Retrieved 23 December 2019 .
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