Richard Ward Jones (1904–1987) was a biomedical engineer and authority on physiological control systems.
His BS was from the University of Minnesota, 1926.
His MS in physics was from Northwestern University, 1941, under Walter S. Huxford for a thesis entitled: Discharge Across Very Small Gaps.
[1] Dick Jones worked at Northwestern University until his retirement in 1971, where he pioneered the biomedical engineering program there.
He was elected to Fellow of the IEEE in 1965, and his citation reads "For contributions in the fields of physiological control systems and biomedical engineering education."