Professor R V Jones

Reginald Victor Jones (28 September 1911–17 December 1997) was an English physicist and scientific military intelligence expert. Professor R V Jones - picture scanned by me Ian Dunster from the inside front cover of: Most Secret War by R. V. Jones - Coronet - 1981 - ISBN 0-340-24169-1 and uncredited. ... Professor R V Jones - picture scanned by me Ian Dunster from the inside front cover of: Most Secret War by R. V. Jones - Coronet - 1981 - ISBN 0-340-24169-1 and uncredited. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). ... 1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... Military intelligence (abbreviated MI, int [Commonwealth], or intel [U.S.]), is a military discipline that focuses on the gathering, analysis, protection, and dissemination of information about the enemy, terrain, and weather in an area of operations. ...

Biography

Born in Dulwich, Jones was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford where he read Natural Sciences. In 1932 he graduated with First Class honours in physics and then, working in the Clarendon Laboratory, completed his DPhil in 1934. Subsequently he took up a Senior Studentship in Astronomy at Balliol College, Oxford. Dulwich is a generally prosperous settlement in the London Borough of Southwark and which has the post code London SE21. ... Alleyns School is an independent co-educational day school situated in Dulwich, South-East London. ... Dulwich is a generally prosperous settlement in the London Borough of Southwark and which has the post code London SE21. ... Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... The Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford, England (not to be confused with the Clarendon Building, also in Oxford) is part of the Physics Department at Oxford University. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Triona Giblin Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

In 1936 Jones took up the post at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, the Air Ministry. Here he worked on the many problems associated with defending Britain from air attack. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs cleanup. ... Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Farnborough Urban District Council Farnborough is a town in the county of Hampshire in the south of England. ...

In September of 1939, the British decided to assign a scientist to the Intelligence section of the Air Ministry. No scientist had previously worked for an intelligence service so this was unusual at the time. Jones was chosen and quickly rose to become Assistant Director of Intelligence (Science) there. During the course of the Second World War he was closely involved with the scientific assessment of enemy technology, and the development of offensive and counter-measures technology. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Jones's first job was to study "new German weapons" which were believed to be under development. The first of these was a blind bombing system which the Germans called Knickebein. Knickebein, as Jones soon determined, used a pair of radio beams which were about one mile wide at their point of intersection. German bombers flew along one beam, and when their radio receivers indicated that they were at the intersection with the second beam, they released their bombs. Knickebein was a radio navigation system used by the Luftwaffe early in World War II to aid bomber navigation. ...

At Jones's urging, Winston Churchill ordered up an RAF search aircraft on the night of 21 June 1940, and the aircraft found the Knickebein radio signals in the frequency range which Jones had predicted. With this knowledge, the British were able to build jammers whose effect was to bend the Knickebein beams so that German bombers for months to come scattered their bomb loads over the British countryside. Thus began the famous "battle of the beams" which lasted throughout much of World War II, with the Germans developing new radio navigation systems and the British developing equally effective countermeasures to them. RAF is an abbreviation for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Fraction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Rachunarski Fakultet RAF is also an... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Battle of the Beams was a period in early World War II when Luftwaffe bombers started using radio navigation for night bombing. ...

He was later instrumental in the deployment of "Window"; strips of metal foil dropped in bundles from aircraft which then appeared on enemy radar screens as "false bombers". This technology is now known as chaff and contrary to the popular belief, this technology was also know to the Germans then. When the Germans began launching V-1s at London he arranged for double agents to inform the Germans that the missiles were over-shooting. The British were able to redirect V-1's and V-2's aimed at London to less populated areas east of the city by sending false impact reports via the German espionage network in Britain, which was actually controlled by the British. See: Double Cross System. The Germans decreased the target range of the V-1s and they began to fall not on London, but on less densely-populated areas to the south. But it must be noted that military intelligence also played a big role in that. Jones went on to solve a number of tough Scientific and Technical Intelligence problems during World War II and is generally known today as the "father of S&T Intelligence." Window was the WWII UK codename for a system called chaff, intended to confuse German radar. ... Chaff is the seed casings and other inedible plant matter harvested with cereal grains such as wheat. ... The Vergeltungswaffe 1 Fi 103 / FZG-76 (V-1), known as the Flying bomb, Buzz bomb or Doodlebug, was the first modern guided missile used in wartime and the first cruise missile. ... The Double Cross System or XX System, was a World War II anti-espionage and deception operation of the British military intelligence arm, MI5. ...

In 1946 Jones was appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, which he held until his retirement in 1981. During his time at Aberdeen much of his attention was devoted to improving the sensitivity of scientific instruments such as seismometers, capacitance micrometers, microbarographs, and optical levers. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The University of Aberdeen is a university in Aberdeen, Scotland, founded by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen in 1495 as Kings College. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

R. V. Jones was awarded the CBE in 1942, CB in 1946, and the CH in 1994. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1965. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross... This article is about the year. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order (decoration). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

Jones married Vera Cain in 1940 – they had two daughters and a son. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

His autobiography, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, formed the basis, pre-publication, of the BBC One TV documentary series "The Secret War", first aired on 5 January 1977, in which Jones was the principal interviewee. BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

In 1993 the CIA created the R. V. Jones Intelligence Award in his honour. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the American foreign intelligence agencies, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... The was created by the CIA in 1993 to honour those whose accomplishments mirror in substance and style those of R. V. Jones, to wit: Scientific acumen applied with art in the cause of freedom. Recipients of the R. V. Jones Intelligence Award 1999 - William J. Perry, former US Secretary...

R. V. Jones's papers are held by Churchill College, Cambridge. Full name Churchill College Motto Forward Named after Sir Winston Churchill Previous names - Established 1966 Sister College Trinity College Master Sir John Boyd Location Storeys Way Undergraduates 440 Graduates 210 Homepage Boatclub Churchill College Main Entrance Churchill College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge...

See also

• Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Professor Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (April 5, 1886 - July 3, 1957) was a physicist who became an influential scientific adviser to the British government and a close associate of Winston Churchill. ...

Books by R. V. Jones

Most Secret War by R V Jones - the book cover of the 1981 UK paperback edition

• Jones, R. V., 1978, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, London: Hamish Hamilton. (Published in the USA as The Wizard War with the same subtitle.)
• Jones, R. V., 1988, Instruments and Experiences, London: John Wiley and Sons.
• Jones, R. V., 1989, Reflections on Intelligence, London: Heinemann.

Most Secret War - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 - R V Jones - 1981 paperback book cover scanned by me Ian Dunster from: Most Secret War by R. V. Jones - Coronet - 1981 - ISBN 0-340-24169-1. ... Most Secret War - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 - R V Jones - 1981 paperback book cover scanned by me Ian Dunster from: Most Secret War by R. V. Jones - Coronet - 1981 - ISBN 0-340-24169-1. ...

External links

• The papers of R.V. Jones
• Studies in Intelligence - a declassified report on R. V. Jones from the Central Intelligence Agency