Lawrence William Jones (November 16, 1925 – June 30, 2023) was an American academic and professor emeritus in the physics department at the University of Michigan.
[5] Jones entered Northwestern University in the summer of 1943 and was drafted into the U.S. Army in February 1944.
[7] Jones worked his entire career at the University of Michigan, where he joined the physics faculty as an instructor in 1952.
[7] In the 1950s, he collaborated in the Midwestern Universities Research Association, which developed the concept of colliding beams in modern particle accelerators.
[7] He also contributed to research in medical radioisotope imaging and was an early proponent of the hydrogen fuel economy.
[9][10][11] Regents of the University of Michigan named Jones professor emeritus of physics in 1998.