Lawrence W. Jones
| Lawrence W. Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lawrence William Jones Evanston, Illinois |
| Residence | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | High energy physics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Excitation function for photoneutron production from 80 to 320 mev (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | A. Carl Helmholz |
| Notable students | Samuel C. C. Ting |
| Notable awards |
Ford Foundation Fellow, 1961 Guggenheim Fellow, 1964 |
Lawrence W. Jones (born 1925) is a professor emeritus in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan. His field of interest is high energy particle physics.
Lawrence Jones' father was C. Herbert Jones (1889-1987), a mathematics teacher at New Trier High School from 1923 to 1958. Lawrence Jones graduated from New Trier in 1943.
Jones entered Northwestern University in the summer of 1943 and was drafted into the US Army in February 1944. He was shipped to Europe on the RMS Aquitania in December 1944, and served in the Signal Corps Company of the 35th Infantry Division until December 1945, when he returned to the United States on the RMS Queen Mary. Jones returned to Northwestern for the spring term in 1946 and earned a B.S. with a double major in zoology and physics 1948 and M.S. 1949. In 1952 he received a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife Ruth married in 1950, and they have three children.
Jones worked his entire career at the University of Michigan, where he joined the physics faculty as an instructor in 1952. He became an assistant professor there in 1956 and associate professor in 1960. He was promoted to professor in 1963, and he served as physics department chair between 1982–1987.
With Martin Perl, he was dissertation advisor to Samuel C. C. Ting in 1962.
Jones' research has involved not only particle accelerator design and experiments at proton accelerators, but also detector development and cosmic ray research. He collaborated in the 1950's in the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA), which developed the concept of colliding beams in modern particle accelerators. He contributed to development of the scintillation chamber, optical spark chamber, and the ionization calorimeter for hadron energy measurement. He participated in experiments on hadron cross-sections as well as elastic and inelastic scattering and production of particles, dimuons, neutrinos, and proton charm production.
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