Richard Ward Jones (1904-1987) was a biomedical engineer and authority on

physiological Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

control systems A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home heating controller using a thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large industrial c ...

Education

His BS was from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, 1926. His MS in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

was from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, 1941, under Walter S. Huxford for a thesis entitled: ''Discharge Across Very Small Gaps.''

Career

Dick Jones worked at

until his retirement in 1971, where he pioneered the biomedical engineering program there.

Honors

He was elected to

Fellow of the IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

in 1965, and his citation reads "For contributions in the fields of physiological control systems and biomedical engineering education."

Selected 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 changing 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, .

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 Universit

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External links

Chicago Sun Times obituary

Jones in Science Magazine
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Richard W. 1987 deaths University of Minnesota alumni Northwestern University alumni Northwestern University faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE 1904 births American biomedical engineers