Professor of Physics and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Richard Anthony Lewis Jones (born 1961)
[4]
[5]
FInstP
FLSW
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]
[1]
[8]
[9]
Education
Jones was educated at
Denstone College
[4] and
St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied the
Natural Sciences Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics 1983.
[4] 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
[4] and in 1998 was appointed a professor at the University of Sheffield.
[11]
Jones' research
[1]
[8] investigates the physics of
Polymers and
Biopolymers at
surfaces and
interfaces, with implications for polymer blends.
[6]
[2] 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
[3] 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]
In 2021, Jones was elected a
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
[22]
References
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Richard A. Jones publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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c Jones, Richard A. L. (2002).
Soft Condensed Matter.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780198505891.
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b Jones, Richard A. J.; Wilsdon, James (2018).
"The Biomedical Bubble". nesta.org.uk.
Nesta.
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f 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.)
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Richard Jones at
Library of Congress
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g Anon (2012).
"Professor Richard Jones FRS". royalsociety.org. London:
Royal Society. Archived from
the original on 29 June 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --
Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the
Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
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^ Sheffield, University of.
"Richard Jones – Contacts – Physics and Astronomy – The University of Sheffield". University of Sheffield.
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Richard A. Jones publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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"Soft Machines – Some personal views on nanotechnology, science and science policy from Richard Jones". softmachines.org.
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^ 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.
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^
"About Richard Jones – Soft Machines". softmachines.org. 29 October 2011.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^
Ahuja, Anjana (2018).
"Britain must stop inflating the biomedical bubble".
Financial Times. (subscription required)
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^ Jones, Richard A. J.; Wilsdon, James (2018).
"It's time to burst the biomedical bubble in UK research".
The Guardian.
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^ Jones, Richard A. J.; Wilsdon, James (2018).
"Rethinking the life sciences strategy". wonkhe.com.
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Watt, Fiona (2018).
"Popping the bubble". insight.mrc.ac.uk.
Medical Research Council. Archived from
the original on 10 September 2018.
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"New Chair in Materials Physics and Innovation Policy". University of Manchester. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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"2008 Tabor Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
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^ Wales, The Learned Society of.
"Richard A.L. Jones". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
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