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Richard W. Jones

Dick Jones
Born May 9, 1904
Died February 26, 1987 (1987-02-27) (aged 82)
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.

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.

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

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."


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