Richard Victor Jones (1929 – November 11, 2019) was a professor of applied physics at Harvard University and a pioneer in semiconductors.
[1] He attended university at Berkeley, where he performed his thesis research on magnetic resonance under Carson D.
[4][5] Shockley's other three initial recruits were George Smoot Horsley and Leopoldo B. Valdes both of whom he knew from Bell Labs, and Jones, who was then a new Berkeley graduate.
[2] Jones remained with Shockley for two years until 1957 when he left to teach physics at Harvard.
[6] Much of his teaching and research at Harvard was focused on physics information technology, including acoustical and optical signals used to process and obtain information (applied to fields such as seismic exploration, optical computing, medical ultrasonics and acoustic microscopy) wave phenomena and digital electronics.