G. O. Jones Building

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The G.O. Jones building is named after a Professor at Queen Mary College, London University. He was a Professor of Physics and the Head of Department. 

He was a member of the department from 1949 to 1968. He was also Head of the Department from 1953 to 1968. He then left his position to become the Director of the National Museum of Wales.  

G.O. Jones is known for publishing a plethora of scientific papers and articles both individually and within academic journals. For example, the ‘Boundaries of Physics’, ‘What experiments are needed in glass science’ and ‘spectroscopy at extreme infra-red wavelengths’. He was not only an academic writer but also published novels such as A Close Family 1998. 

He steered research in the Department into many new areas and established Queen Mary College’s reputation as a moderately sized Department conducting high-quality research into fundamental physics on a great variety of scales. 

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