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David E. H. Jones
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David Edward Hugh Jones (20 April 1938 – 19 July 2017) was a British chemist and writer, who under the pen name Daedalus was the fictional inventor for DREADCO. Jones' columns as Daedalus were published for 38 years, starting weekly in 1964 in New Scientist. He then moved to the journal Nature, and continued to publish until 2002. Columns from these magazines, along with additional comments and implementation sketches, were collected in two books: The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes (1982) and The Further Inventions of Daedalus (1999).
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![]() Jones inspects the container for his chemical garden which NASA flew into space | |
Born | David Edward Hugh Jones (1938-04-20)20 April 1938 Southwark, London, England |
Died | 19 July 2017(2017-07-19) (aged 79) Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK |
Alma mater | Imperial College |
Known for | Daedalus, DREADCO, prediction of fullerenes, arsenic in Napoleon's wallpaper, chemical gardens in space, stability of the bicycle, fake perpetual motion machines, 3D printing |
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Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
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