Elizabeth Winifred Jones (March 8, 1939 – June 11, 2008) was an American geneticist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
[1] Jones earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1960 and her Ph.D. in genetics in 1964, both from the University of Washington.
She worked with Herschel L. Roman for her Ph.D., which was the first ever granted by the University of Washington in genetics.
[3] She was an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Microbiology She also received the Robert Doherty Prize for Excellence in Education and the Julius Ashkin Teaching Award from CMU's Mellon College of Science.
[5] CMU also created the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Experimental or Computational Biology, in honor of Jones' support for undergraduate research.