Thomas Alwyn Jones (born 30 August 1947) is a Welsh biophysicist and a professor at the Uppsala University in Sweden.
He was educated at King's College London, where he received his BSc in physics and a PhD degree in biochemistry.
[1] He held various positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich from 1973 to 1979, and in Uppsala from 1979.
[3][4] He is a recipient of the Gregori Aminoff Prize (2003), "for his pioneering development of methods to interpret electron density maps and to build models of biological macromolecules with the aid of computer graphics" and the Lindo Patterson Award, 2005, from the American Crystallographic Association.
[3][5] Jones is most noted for development of widely used programs for fitting models into crystallographic electron density maps, first Frodo,[6] then its further developed version O (molecular graphics),[7][8] and for involvement in structure validation.