Harry Clary Jones

Harry Clary Jones (11 November 1865 – 9 April 1916) was an American physical chemist and a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.

He then travelled to Europe where he worked for two years at the laboratories of Wilhelm Ostwald in Leipzig, Svante Arrhenius in Stockholm and Jacobus van't Hoff in Amsterdam.

[2] He published several books and many papers and was a popular teacher who would recount anecdotes from the lives of chemists he had worked with in Europe.

This was published posthumously with a biographical note by his colleague E. Emmet Reid.

Jones was depressed and committed suicide by consuming a cyanide pill.