Richard W. Jones

Richard Ward Jones (1904–1987) was a biomedical engineer and authority on physiological control systems.

Education[edit]

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.^[1]

Career[edit]

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

Honors[edit]

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."

Selected publications[edit]

• 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 changing light intensities," J. Neurophysiol., Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 894–907, 1963.

Books[edit]

• 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 0-12-389950-8.

References[edit]

• 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 [1].

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External links[edit]

• Chicago Sun Times obituary
• Jones in Science Magazine
• Richard W. Jones at the Mathematics Genealogy Project