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Harry C. (Harry Clary) Jones
1865–1916
A pioneering American physical chemist, he helped establish physical chemistry as a serious field in the United States and wrote influential books that made new ideas in chemistry easier to grasp. His work focused especially on solutions, electrochemistry, and the changing picture of matter in the early 1900s.
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Determination of the Atomic Weight of Cadmium and the Preparation of Certain of Its Sub-Compounds
by Harry C. (Harry Clary) Jones
About the author
Born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1865, Harry Clary Jones became an American physical chemist and a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He studied at Johns Hopkins and later in Europe, where he worked with leading chemists before returning to the United States to teach and carry out research.
Jones was known for his studies of chemical solutions and for championing the growing field of physical chemistry at a time when it was still new to many American students and researchers. He wrote a number of scientific books, including The Elements of Physical Chemistry and A New Era in Chemistry, helping bring complex ideas about ions, solutions, and the structure of matter to a wider audience.
He died in Baltimore in 1916 at the age of 50. Though not as widely remembered today as some of his contemporaries, he played an important part in shaping early American physical chemistry and in training students at Johns Hopkins during a formative period for the discipline.