Ewart Jones
Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002) was a Wales, Welsh organic chemist and academic administrator, whose fields of expertise led him to discoveries into the chemistry of natural products, mainly steroids, terpenes and vitamins. His work also led to the creation of the Jones oxidation. Personal life Jones was born in Wrexham in 1911, and grew up in the small village of Rhostyllen, Wales with his evangelical family. Between July 1924 and March 1927, his sister died of tuberculosis, his grandmother died and his father drowned himself. He attended Grove Park School in Wrexham, Wales and then entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, Bangor in 1929, hoping to concentrate on physics, but gained an honours degree in 1932 in Chemistry instead. He was invited to stay at the University by the head of the department, J.L. Simonsen, and stayed there for two years. In 1937, he married Frances Copp, whom he had me ...
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Dyson Perrins Laboratory
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