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R. Norman Jones fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1891-2001.

Reference:

R4344-0-X-E, MG31-J25

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103904

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R. Norman Jones fonds
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Fonds includes:

10 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1891-2001.

Place of creation:

Various places

Extent:

22.03 m of textual records.
31,200 photographs : 81 b&w and 18 col.; 21 b&w lantern slides; 31,101 col. slides ; various sizes.
1 drawing : pencil.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Hungarian, French, Polish

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Fonds consists of personal information on Jones and his publications, 1934-2000 scientific lectures 1942-1985; his diary 1929-1937, 1948-2000; spectrographic laboratory records, 1938-1972; and professional correspondence with scientific colleagues, post-doctoral fellows, guest researches who worked or studied under Dr. Jones at the National Research Council, 1936-2001. Material on Jones' interest in the history of spectroscopy and Japanese culture. Correspondence with family and personal friends 1891-2000.

The fonds also contains photographs, [ca. 1935]-1977, of Dr. R. Norman Jones and colleagues with spectrometers, portraits of post-doctoral fellows who worked with Dr. Jones; and spectographs on glass plates of various substances studied by Dr. Jones during the 1930's; a number of the plates have been annotated by Dr. Jones.

30,000 35mm colour slides, dating from Sept. 1937 to the late 1990's. They were taken by Dr. R. Norman Jones and document his career from his post-graduate days at Harvard through his various university and National Research Council appointments in Canada, the United States and Japan, as well as conferences, travel, residences, friends and colleagues, family, etc. The images are identified and numbered in numerical sequence and the identifications can be found in five hand-written notebooks and one three ring binder in vol. 178

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Jones, Richard Norman, 1913-2001

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Jones, Richard Norman, 1913-2001 : Richard Norman Jones was born on 20 March 1913 in Manchester, England, and attended the University of Manchester, 1930-1936. He used ultraviolet absorption spectrophotometry while completing his doctoral thesis on the elucidation of the structure of vitamin D. In 1937 Jones accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. From 1942 until 1946 he was on the Chemistry Department staff of Queen's University, Kingston, where he led a research group on ultraviolet spectroscopy. During this same period, as a Member of the NRC Associate Committee on Explosives, he was involved in a program using spectroscopy to control the manufacture of the explosive RDX.

In 1945, Dr. Jones went to the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York to help establish a steroid hormone metabolism project using infrared spectroscopy. After joining the Chemistry Division of the National Research Council in Ottawa in 1946, Dr. Jones, as Principal Research Officer and Head of Organic Spectrochemistry, established a spectroscopy laboratory. Among his many innovations was the use of computers as an aid to the efficient handling of spectroscopic data on a statistical basis.

After his retirement from NRC in 1978, Dr. Jones continued his career in various capacities at NRC and as Guest Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1979-1982, Visiting Professor at University of Alberta and at Queen's University, 1982-1984. Throughout his career, Dr. Jones was a member of and held offices in numerous professional societies and scientific organizations such as the Commission on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), 1957-1979 and the Physical Chemistry Division of IUPAC, 1969-1979. He also served on the Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU/CODATA), 1967-1978.

In recognition of his scientific contributions, he received various honours and awards, including his appointment to the Royal Society of Canada, 1948, the Pittsburgh Spectroscopic Society Prize, 1968, the Spectroscopy Society of Canada's Herzberg Prize, 1979 and the Order of Canada in 1999. He published over 300 research papers. R. Norman Jones died on 17 Feb. 2001.

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Textual record and graphic material (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list describing volumes 1 to 181. MSS1597 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001830.pdf

Graphic material (photo) (Paper) The colour slides are identified and numbered in numerical sequence and the identifications can be found in five hand-written notebooks and one three ring binder which is stored in vol 178. (90: Open)

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General note:

Received in 1985 from Dr. Norman Jones of Ottawa, Ont. and in 2001, 2003 and 2006 from Mrs. Magda Kemeny Jones of Edmonton, Alberta.

Language note:

About 10 percent of the correspondence in the Family series is in Hungarian.

Container note(s):

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178 : photo finding aid material for slides.
163 : slides
162 : slides
164 : slides
165 : slides
166 : slides
167 : slides
168 : slides
169 : slides
170 : slides
171 : slides
172 : slides
173 : slides
174 : slides
175 : slides
176 : slides
177 : slides
180 : 1 oversized photograph - family photograph dated 1961.
179 : photographs
Subject heading:

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Organic spectrochemists - Canada, 1938-1985 National Research Council, 1947-1978

Spectrometer, 1938-1972
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1986-023 NPC
1986-060 NPC
2002-00529-X
2004-00270-0
2007-00043-1
MG31-J25

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-J25
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4344] 178

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1597] 124

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4344]

[Consultation 90 Open]

162--177;

[Consultation 90 Open]

179--180;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [JONES, RICHARD NORMAN 1986-060] 1167

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [JONES, RICHARD NORMAN 1986-023] 5848

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: Name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / Copy negative no.

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