Education
In 1962, he earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Imperial College London.
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In 1962, he earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Imperial College London.
Jones' columns as Daedalus were published weekly in New Scientist starting in the mid-1960s. He then moved on to the journal Nature, and continued to publish for many years. He published two books with columns from these magazines, along with additional comments and implementation sketches.
The first was The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes (1982) and the second was The Further Inventions of Daedalus (1999). David Jones is a chemist by profession. In 1974, he was the Sir James Knott Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He then became an independent science consultant to industry providing ideas, brain storming services, and scientific demonstrations for television. He continued as a guest staff member in the chemistry department at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Beyond Daedalus, in scientific circles he is perhaps best known for his study of bicycle stability, his determination of arsenic in Napoleon’s wallpaper, and for having designed and flown an experiment to grow a chemical garden in microgravity
He is also known for his series of fake perpetual-motion machines, the latest of which is in the Technisches Museum, Vienna.
In 2009 a documentary film about his work and inventions, Perpetual Motion Machine, was made and shown at the Newcastle Science Festival 2010. He is known in Germany as a regular guest on the 1980s TV science quiz show Kopf um Kopf (Head to Head), presenting interesting physics experiments.