text: Jones was awarded the H. G. Smith Memorial Medal by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1930. He served as President of the Queensland branch of the ACI (1938–39) and the President of the Australian branch in 1939. Jones was promoted to Professor and Head of the Chemistry department at the University of Queensland in 1940, following the death of Professor L.S. Bagster. He was appointed a member of the University Senate from 1944 to 1968, the Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1942 to 1949 and 1960–61. He was President of the Professorial Board from 1951 to 1956, and served on every senior committee, including that of the library for twelve years. As acting president of the Professorial Board in April 1957, he addressed a public meeting of 2500 people in Brisbanes City Hall, protesting a new bill of the then Gair government, which threatened the universitys ability to make autonomous appointments.
  Jones was awarded a CBE in 1960 and retired in 1965. He received an honorary LLD from the University of Queensland in 1960 and the University of Newcastle in 1966.
  He published over 40 papers during his career.