ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 14

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA

Canterbury Man Elected Fellow Dr. A. V. Jones, a distinguished graduate of the University of Canterbury, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. At the University of Saskatchewan since 1952, he has been investigating the processes causing the aurora and other light in the night sky. The Royal Society of Canada says that this research has contributed significantly to understanding of how gases are excited sufficiently to give off light and, indirectly, to knowledge of the nature of particles ejected by the sun. Dr. Jones took first-class honours in chemistry when he graduated master of science in 1945. He held a Sir George Grey scholarship, an 1851 Exhibition science scholarship and a National research scholarship, and went to Cambridge where he gained a doctorate for research by spectroscopy. Afterwards Dr. Jones was awarded a post-doctoral scholarship of the National Research Council of Canada, and accepted a research appointment at the University nf Saskatchewan and later became a professor of physics. He was a joint dux of St Andrew's College where he won a university scholarship He is a son of the late Mr F. E. Jones and Mrs Jones, of St. Andrews Hill.