Alan Anthony Jones (1944 in Jamestown, NY – May 23, 2006) was an American professor of chemistry at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During his more than thirty years at Clark he served as a mentor and advisor to hundreds of undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students.
At Clark, Jones and fellow professor Paul Inglefield built an NMR facility at the university and wrote over 100 research papers.
Before his death, Jones had been researching synthetic polymers that would be suitable membranes for use in chemical separations, fuel cells and solid electrolytes.
He used PFG NMR to follow the diffusion of small molecules or ions and determine their self-diffusion coefficient.