Education
He later attended Cambridge University on an Athlone Fellowship and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Sciences in 1960.
He later attended Cambridge University on an Athlone Fellowship and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Sciences in 1960.
On returning to Montreal, he began teaching “mechanical metallurgy” at McGill and built up a research laboratory that includes a number of specialized testing machines and is particularly well equipped for experimental investigations in the field of high temperature deformation. Doctor Jonas is known internationally for the ground breaking studies that he and his students and colleagues have carried out at McGill on the hot rolling behaviour of metals. Their work has resulted in major improvements in the understanding of the softening processes involved in steel processing.
These have led to more accurate computer models for the control of industrial rolling mills.
They have published over seven hundred and eighty technical papers dealing with the scientific and engineering aspects of metal shaping and forming. Professor Jonas has been elected a Fellow of the American Society for Metals, Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He has served as a visiting professor in a number of countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, South of Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1985, Doctor Jonas was appointed to the CSIRA/Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Chair of Steel Processing at McGill, a position which was funded jointly by the Canadian Steel Industry Research Association and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. In this capacity, he worked closely with the Canadian steel industry, and collaborated in the solution of a number of important processing problems.
Doctor Jonas also holds the Birks Chair of Metallurgy.
He and his colleagues have been granted five sets of international patents associated with steel rolling, three of which have been assigned to the sponsoring companies. Professor Jonas served on the Quebec Science Council (Conseil de la science et de la technologie) from 1987 to 1990, and as Chairman of the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited) R&Doctorate Advisory Panel in 1992 and 1993. His current h-index (Hirsch number) is 75 and he has more than 21,000 citations to his cartulary-register
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He is an Honorary Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan and of the Indian Institute of Metals.