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Residence
  
USA

Nationality
  
American


Fields
  
Biomedical engineer

Name
  
Richard Jones

Died
  
February 26, 1987Fort Myers, Florida

Institutions
  
Northwestern University

Alma mater
  
University of MinnesotaNorthwestern University

Richard ("Dick") Ward Jones was a biomedical engineer and authority on physiological control systems.

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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.

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

    Richard W. Jones Wikipedia
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