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Owen Thomas Jones , FRS [1] Welsh geologist.
Education
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He was born in Beulah, near Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire, the only son of David Jones and Margaret Thomas. He attended the local village school in Trewen before going to Pencader Grammar School in 1893. In 1896 he went up to University College, Aberystwyth , to study physics, graduating in 1900. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge , and was awarded a B.A. degree in Natural Sciences (geology) in 1902.[1] [2]
Career
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In 1903 he joined the British Geological Survey , working near his home in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. In 1910 he was appointed the first professor of geology in Aberystwyth.[1] University of Manchester , and then, in 1930, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge (until 1943).[3]
Awards and honours
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In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society .[1] Royal Medal of the Royal Society , and on receiving it he was described as 'the most versatile of living British geologists'.[4] Wollaston Medal and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London . He was twice president of the Geological Society.
He died at the age of 89 having produced more than 140 publications. A year before his death he published a paper describing the Welsh source of the bluestones of Stonehenge (written in Welsh ).
References
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^ "Biographical Register" (PDF) . University of Chicago Press.
^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 428. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
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