Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones 16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002 Elected FRS 1950

Abstract

Ewart Ray Herbert Jones, just ‘ERH’ or ‘Prof’ to his laboratory colleagues but ‘Tim’ to his more intimate friends and family, died on 7 May 2002. He made important contributions to the chemistry of polyenes, poly-ynes, steroids and triterpenes. A leading figure in the profession of chemistry, he steered the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry towards unification, and was first President of the resulting Royal Society of Chemistry.