 Regents of the University of Michigan named Jones professor emeritus of physics in 1998.Jones was a Ford Foundation Fellow (1961–1962) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1964–1965) at CERN in Switzerland.With four colleagues, he wrote "Innovation was not Enough; the History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA)", which World Scientific published in 2009, describing their work researching particle accelerator design between1950–1960.