Richard W. Jones
| Dick Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 9, 1904 |
| Died |
February 26, 1987 Fort Myers, Florida |
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biomedical engineer |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
| Alma mater |
University of Minnesota Northwestern University |
| Academic advisors | Walter S. Huxford |
| Doctoral students |
Robert B. Pinter Peter Dallos Dudley S. Childress |
Richard ("Dick") Ward Jones was a biomedical engineer and authority on physiological control systems.
Education
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
Dick Jones worked at Northwestern University until his retirement in 1971, where he pioneered the biomedical engineering program there.
Honors
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 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 changig 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, ISBN 0-12-389950-8.
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 University .
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