| Authorised form of name | Jones; Humphrey Owen (1878 - 1912); chemist and mountaneer |
| Dates | 1878 - 1912 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Goginan, Cardiganshire, Wales |
| Date of birth | 20 February 1878 |
| Place of death | Mont Blanc, Italy, Europe |
| Date of death | 15 August 1912 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial place: Courmayeur, Italy, Europe |
| Occupation | chemist |
| Research field | Stereochemistry |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Lewis School, Pengam; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; DSc (Lond); MA; BSc (Wales)
Career:
Appointed demonstrator to Sir James Dewar (FRS 1877), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy (1901); elected to a Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, subsequently becoming lecturer there (1902); published upwards of 60 papers (1900-1912); gained most of his research experience at Cambridge working with Dewar and Henry John Horstman Fenton (FRS 1899); carried out various experimental investigations on stereochemistry of nitrogen (1907-1909); appointed to the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines (1912); accidentally died whilst attempting to climb the Mont Rouge de Peuteret, a minor peak (2941 m.) on the south side of Mont Blanc. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1912 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| Proposer | William Crookes; Thomas McKenny Hughes; Thomas Edward Thorpe; William Henry Perkin; Alexander Crum Brown |
| James Dewar; George Downing Liveing; Harold Baily Dixon; Percy Faraday Frankland; Raphael Meldola; Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Thomas Heycock; Joseph John Thomson |
| Relationships | Spouse: Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, Fellow of the University of Wales, who had done research with him (1 August 1912). |
| OtherInfo | Tragically died only 6 months after becoming FRS. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
John Shorter, 'Humphrey Owen Jones, FRS (1878-1912), Chemist and Mountaineer' in NR 1978-9 vol 33 pp 261-277, plate |
| Code | NA8244 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/17/22 | Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'On a new Iron carbonyl, and on the action of light and of heat on the Iron carbonyls' by James Dewar and Humphrey Owen Jones | [January 1907] |
| MC/27/83 | Letter from James Dewar, Cambridge, 1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 2 November 1912 |
| RR/19/140 | Referee's report by Humphrey Owen Jones, on a paper 'Borohydrates.—Part I' by Morris William Travers and Rames Chandra Ray | [May 1912] |
| EC/1912/06 | Jones, Humphrey Owen: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/16/296 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on a paper 'The physical and chemical properties of iron carbonyl' by Sir James Dewar and Humphrey Owen Jones | November 1905 |