Career
Raised to the peerage in 1964, he sat as a Labour peer. Research Assistant and lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Bristol. International Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) (1927-1929).
Lecturer in Chemisrrv, University of Reading (1929-1938).
Leverhulme Research Fellow, Princeton University (United States of America I (1934). Professor of Chemistry, University College.
Dundee (1938-1947). Professor of Physical Chemistry.
King"s College, Newcastle upon Tyne (1947-1956) and Professor of Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry, University of Newcastle 1956-1968. Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle, 1965-1968.
Wynne-Jones was created a Life Peer on 17 December 1964 with the title Baron Wynne-Jones, of Abergele in the County of Denbigh. Lord Wynne-Jones died in 1982.