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Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones 16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002 Elected FRS 1950

Author(s) -

Jean Jones

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

biographical memoirs of fellows of the royal society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1748-8494

pISSN - 0080-4606

DOI - 10.1098/rsbm.2003.0015

Subject(s) - unification , classics , history of chemistry , chemistry , philosophy , computer science , history , history of science , epistemology , programming language

Ewart Ray Herbert Jones, just ‘ERH’ or ‘Prof’ to his laboratory colleagues but ‘Tim’ to his more intimate friends and family, died on 7 May 2002. He made important contributions to the chemistry of polyenes, poly-ynes, steroids and triterpenes. A leading figure in the profession of chemistry, he steered the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry towards unification, and was first President of the resulting Royal Society of Chemistry.

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