Rhian H. Jones (born 1960)[1] is a British planetary scientist whose research focuses on chondrites and the evidence they provide on how the Solar System formed. She is Reader in Isotope Geo- and Cosmochemistry in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester.[2]

Education and career

Jones read chemistry at the University of Oxford, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1983. She completed a PhD in geology at the University of Manchester in 1986.[3]

She went to the University of New Mexico for postdoctoral research, beginning her lifelong work on meteorites, and remained at the university as a faculty member for many years,[2] also becoming curator of meteorites for the university's Institute of Meteoritics.[4] In 2015, she retired from the University of New Mexico as a professor emerita,[5][6] and returned to the University of Manchester as a reader.[2]

Recognition

Jones is the 2023 winner of the Price Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, "in recognition of her outstanding contributions in a series of closely-linked investigations using chondritic meteorites to understand the composition and formation of the first planetary bodies in the Solar System".[7]

Asteroid 5366 Rhianjones is named for her.[1][7]

References

  1. ^ a b 5366 Rhianjones, JPL, accessed 2023-02-12
  2. ^ a b c "In conversation with Dr Rhian Jones – Reader in Isotope Geo and Cosmochemistry", Meet the department, Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 15 July 2019, retrieved 2023-02-12
  3. ^ "Rhian Jones", ORCiD, retrieved 2023-02-12
  4. ^ "Meteorite changes their lives", Tampa Bay Times, 13 October 2003, retrieved 2023-02-12
  5. ^ "Rhian Jones", Research Profiles, University of Manchester, retrieved 2023-02-12
  6. ^ "Faculty emeritus and emerita", People, University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Science, retrieved 2023-02-12
  7. ^ a b The 2023 Price Medal is awarded to Dr Rhian Jones (PDF), Royal Astronomical Society, retrieved 2023-02-12

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