Harry Jones (physicist, 1905)

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Harry Jones (born April 12, 1905 in Pudsey , Yorkshire , † December 15, 1986 ) was a British theoretical solid-state physicist.

Jones studied at the University of Leeds , Cambridge University (with Ralph Howard Fowler ) and then at the University of Bristol with John Lennard-Jones . This led to the collaboration with Nevill Mott (from 1932 successor to Lennard-Jones in Bristol) on the quantum theory of electrons in metals and in the development of the ribbon model , based on the pioneering work on quantum mechanics in solid-state physics in Germany, which was carried out by the Handbook articles by Hans Bethe and Arnold Sommerfeld became known. Jones succeeded in providing a quantitative explanation of the rules of the British metallurgist William Hume-Rothery (1926) on the relationship between electron density and crystal structure in alloys. With Mott he published an early English-language standard work in theoretical solid-state physics in 1936. Jones was a lecturer in theoretical physics in Bristol from 1931 to 1937 and reader at Imperial College London from 1938 . During the Second World War he dealt with detonation problems in the Homeland Security Ministry. After the war, he headed the mathematics department at Imperial College. In 1970 he retired from Imperial College.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Jones was a close friend of Dennis Gábor , whom he often visited in his second home near Rome.

He is not to be confused with the physicist and Oxford professor Harry Jones , who deals with magnet technology, superconductivity and low temperature physics, but is 40 years younger.

Fonts

  • with Nevill Mott: The theory of the properties of metals and alloys , Clarendon Press 1936, 1958
  • Theory of electrical and thermal conductivity in metals , in Handbuch der Physik 1956

literature

  • Nevill Mott, Obituary in Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 33, 1987, pp. 327-342
  • Hannah Gay: The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007, Imperial College Press 2007, p. 375
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theoretical solid-state physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pudsey , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1986