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CAMBRIDGE.—Mr. B. M. Jones, Emmanuel College, has been elected to the Francis Mond professorship of Aeronautical Engineering at the University, founded by Mr. Ernile Mond in memory of his son, who was killed in the war. This is the first professorship in aeronautics which has been filled in this country. Mr. Jones entered Emmanuel College as an Exhibitioner in 1906. He afterwards became a scholar, and obtained First Class Honours in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos of 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he was employed on aeronautical research at the National Physical Laboratory, and held a research scholarship from the Imperial College, London. In the capacity of an assistant he continued in this work until May, 1913, when he left the National Physical Laboratory to take up the design of rigid airship construction and other aeronautical work for the firm of Sir G. W. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. In September, 1914, Mr. Jones joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and remained there, carrying out aeronautical research and experimental work until May, 1916. He was then transferred to the Armament Experimental Station, Orford Ness, with the rank of captain, R.F.C., eventually rising to the position of Assistant Controller of Experiment and Research with the rank of lieut.-colonel. His chief activities were directed towards aerial gunnery and aerial bombing, and in order to gain first-hand experience of fighting conditions he qualified as a pilot and served with No. 48 Squadron, R.F.C., in France during the early months of 1916. On being demobilised in March last, Mr. Jones was elected a junior fellow of Emmanuel College, with the post of director of engineering studies at the college.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 104, 107–108 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104107a0
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