Lawrence W. Jones

Lawrence William Jones (November 16, 1925 – June 30, 2023) was an American academic and professor emeritus in the physics department at the University of Michigan. His field of interest was high energy particle physics.

Early life and education Lawrence W. Jones was born in Evanston, Illinois, on November 16, 1925.

His father was C. Herbert Jones, a mathematics teacher at New Trier High School. Lawrence Jones graduated from New Trier in 1943.

Jones entered Northwestern University in the summer of 1943 and was drafted into the U.S. Army in February 1944. He shipped to Europe on the 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 . 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 an M.S. in 1949. In 1952 he received a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife Ruth married in 1950, and they had three children.

Research Jones's research depended on and led to developments in particle accelerators and detectors. He contributed to development of the scintillation chamber, optical spark chamber, and the ionization calorimeter for hadron energy measurement.

Regents of the University of Michigan named Jones professor emeritus of physics in 1998.

Jones co-authored 369 publications and solo authored 6 papers.