Professor Douglas Samuel Jones, Ivory Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Dundee

• Reference:GB 254 UR-SF 81
• Dates of Creation:1989-2005
• Name of Creator:
  Douglas Samuel Jones
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  Certificates awarded to Douglas Samuel Jones

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Douglas Samuel Jones was born in Corby in 1922, and was the eldest of four children. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He served in the Royal Airforce in a research capacity during the Second World War and was awarded an MBE for his work. He graduated from Oxford in 1947 and spent a year at MIT, before joining the staff of the University of Manchester. In 1957 he became Professor of Mathematics at Keele, joining Queens College, Dundee (then a College of the University of St Andrews, but which became the University of Dundee in 1967) in 1965 as Ivory Professor of Applied Mathematics, a post he held until his retirement in 1992 after which he became Emeritus Professor. He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Science and as a member of the Mathematics sub-committee of the University Grants Committee. Considered by his peers to be an outstanding mathematician, he was well known for his work on electromagnetic waves and noise shielding and was the author of a number of significant publications. He died in November 2013, and was survived by his two children, his wife Ivy having predeceased him.

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  Douglas Samuel Jones was born in Corby in 1922, and was the eldest of four children. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He served in the Royal Airforce in a research capacity during the Second World War and was awarded an MBE for his work. He graduated from Oxford in 1947 and spent a year at MIT, before joining the staff of the University of Manchester. In 1957 he became Professor of Mathematics at Keele, joining Queens College, Dundee (then a College of the University of St Andrews, but which became the University of Dundee in 1967) in 1965 as Ivory Professor of Applied Mathematics, a post he held until his retirement in 1992 after which he became Emeritus Professor. He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Science and as a member of the Mathematics sub-committee of the University Grants Committee. Considered by his peers to be an outstanding mathematician, he was well known for his work on electromagnetic waves and noise shielding and was the author of a number of significant publications. He died in November 2013, and was survived by his two children, his wife Ivy having predeceased him.

  See also RU 861

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, February 2018

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