Reginald Victor Jones
| R. V. Jones | |
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R.V. Jones (left) with R. James Woolsey, Jr. (Director of Central Intelligence) and Jeannie Rousseau (French WWII spy), 1993.
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| Born |
29 September 1911 Herne Hill, London |
| Died | 17 December 1997 (aged 86) |
| Institutions |
Royal Aircraft Establishment Air Ministry (Intelligence) University of Aberdeen |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for | physicist and scientific military intelligence expert |
| Notable awards |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1942) Companion of the Order of the Bath (1946) Duddell Medal and Prize (1960) Fellow of the Royal Society (1965) R. V. Jones Intelligence Award (1993) Companion of Honour (1994) Doctor of Science (honoris causa, 1996) |
Reginald Victor Jones CH, CB, CBE, FRSFRSE LLD (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in World War II.
Born in Herne Hill, South London, Jones was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford where he studied Natural Sciences. In 1932 he graduated with First Class honours in physics and then, working in the Clarendon Laboratory, completed his DPhil in 1934. Subsequently he took up a Skynner Senior Studentship in Astronomy at Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1936 Jones took up the post at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, a part of the Air Ministry. Here he worked on the problems associated with defending Britain from an air attack.
In September 1939, the British decided to assign a scientist to the Intelligence section of the Air Ministry. No scientist had previously worked for an intelligence service. Jones quickly rose to become Assistant Director of Intelligence (Science) there. During the course of the Second World War he was closely involved with the scientific assessment of enemy technology, and the development of offensive and counter-measures technology. He solved a number of tough Scientific and Technical Intelligence problems during World War II and is generally known today as the "father of S&T Intelligence".
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