Thomas Gilbert Henry Jones CBE (1895–1970) was an Australian organic chemist and academic, notable for his pioneering work in the field of essential oils from Queensland flora natural products.
Thomas Gilbert Henry Jones was born on 14 July 1895 in Owens Gap, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, the son of Thomas Jones a schoolteacher and his wife Margaret Bell.
[1] He attended Newcastle High School where he won prizes in his Junior and Senior years.
In 1915, Jones was awarded a government research scholarship and was appointed an assistant lecturer and demonstrator at the University of Queensland.
Jones was selected as one of a group of chemists to be sent to England to undertake research for the munitions factories.
At the end of the war he was admitted an associate of the British Chemical Institute (BCI) for his service.
He returned to Australia in 1919, resuming his work and was promoted to lecturer in 1921.
[6] Jones was awarded the H. G. Smith Memorial Medal by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1930.
He was appointed a member of the University Senate from 1944 to 1968, the Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1942 to 1949 and 1960–61.
He was President of the Professorial Board from 1951 to 1956, and served on every senior committee, including that of the library for twelve years.
As acting president of the Professorial Board in April 1957, he addressed a public meeting of 2500 people in Brisbane's City Hall, protesting a new bill of the then Gair government, which threatened the university's ability to make autonomous appointments.
Jones married Vera Haines, a dispensing chemist in Gympie in 1923.
Jones was honoured with a stone grotesque in the Great Court of the University of Queensland placed on the Forgan Smith building.
[11] An annual lecture is presented in his name at the University of Queensland in the School of Chemistry of Molecular Biosciences.
Notes on the essential oil of Daphnandra aromatica.
The composition of the volatile oil of the leaf of Daphnandra aromatica.
Olefinic terpene ketones from the volatile oil of flowering Tagetes glandulifera.
Olefinic Terpene Ketones from the Volatile Oil of Flowering Tagetes glandulifera.
Olefinic terpene ketones from the volatile oil of flowering Tagetes glandulifera.
The essential oil of Eucalyptus andrewsi from Queensland.
Backhousia bancroftii, Papers, University of Queensland, Department of Chemistry 1(8): 41-42.
Essential oils from Queensland flora Part XVII, The essential oil of Evodia littoralis and the occurrence of a new phenolic ketone.
Essential oils from the Queensland flora, XIV-Eucalyptus Conglomerata.
Essential oils from the Queensland Flora Part XV.
Essential oils from Queensland flora XIV Eucalyptus conglomerata.
Essential oils from the Queensland Flora, XVI.
The crystalline solid formed in the oil of Melaleuca linariifolia.
The ultra-violet absorption spectra of Tagetone and related ketones.
Essential oils of the Queensland flora, Part XXIV, The essential oil of Calythris tetragona lab from the Glasshouse Mountains.
Papers, University of Queensland, Department of Chemistry.