Biography:Rhian Jones
Rhian H. Jones (born 1960)[1] is a British planetary scientist whose research focuses on chondrites and the evidence they provide on how the Solar System formed. She is Reader in Isotope Geo- and Cosmochemistry in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester.[2]
Education and career
Jones read chemistry at the University of Oxford, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1983. She completed a PhD in geology at the University of Manchester in 1986.[3]
She went to the University of New Mexico for postdoctoral research, beginning her lifelong work on meteorites, and remained at the university as a faculty member for many years,[2] also becoming curator of meteorites for the university's Institute of Meteoritics.[4] In 2015, she retired from the University of New Mexico as a professor emerita,[5][6] and returned to the University of Manchester as a reader.[2]
Recognition
Jones is the 2023 winner of the Price Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, "in recognition of her outstanding contributions in a series of closely-linked investigations using chondritic meteorites to understand the composition and formation of the first planetary bodies in the Solar System".[7]
Asteroid 5366 Rhianjones is named for her.[1][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 5366 Rhianjones, JPL, accessed 2023-02-12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "In conversation with Dr Rhian Jones – Reader in Isotope Geo and Cosmochemistry", Meet the department (Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences), 15 July 2019, https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/sees/2019/07/15/in-conversation-with-dr-rhian-jones-reader-in-isotope-geo-and-cosmochemistry-and-admissions-tutor/, retrieved 2023-02-12
- ↑ "Rhian Jones", ORCiD, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8238-9379, retrieved 2023-02-12
- ↑ "Meteorite changes their lives", Tampa Bay Times, 13 October 2003, https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/10/13/meteorite-changes-their-lives/, retrieved 2023-02-12
- ↑ "Rhian Jones", Research Profiles (University of Manchester), https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/rhian.jones-2, retrieved 2023-02-12
- ↑ "Faculty emeritus and emerita", People (University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Science), https://eps.unm.edu/people/faculty/faculty-emeritus-and-emerita.html, retrieved 2023-02-12
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The 2023 Price Medal is awarded to Dr Rhian Jones, Royal Astronomical Society, https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-01/Price%20Medal%20-%20Dr%20Rhian%20Jones.pdf, retrieved 2023-02-12
External links
- Rhian Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Rhian Jones on AstroGen
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