The following year she worked on a project at David Dunlap Observatory, and earned a master's degree at Toronto with her astronomy thesis, titled ""Stellar wavelengths from spectrographs of small dispersions."
Patterson completed her doctoral work in astronomy at Radcliffe College in 1941, with a dissertation titled "Surface photometry of external galaxies.
During World War II, she worked at an optical glass manufacturer in Toronto, assuring quality in the production of gun sights, periscopes, and range finders.
[4] Patterson Jones was also a master weaver; she wore suits made from fabrics she had woven, exhibited her works, and taught weaving.
[7][8] Her younger daughter Irene Jones is a biomedical researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.