Robert Thomas Jones (engineer)

Robert Thomas Jones
Robert Thomas Jones
Born	May 28, 1910
Died	August 11, 1999 (aged 89); Los Altos Hills
Occupation	Military flight engineer, engineer, aerospace engineer
Employer	NASA ;
Awards	Ludwig Prandtl Ring (1978); Langley Gold Medal (1981); Fluid Dynamics Prize (1986); NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering (For his major contributions to aeronautics, including his supersonic area rule, discovery of the value of wing sweep in attaining supersonic flight, and application of the Heaviside Calculus to flight dynamics., 1990) ;

Robert T. Jones, (May 28, 1910 – August 11, 1999), was an American aerodynamicist and aeronautical engineer for NACA and later NASA. He was known at NASA as "one of the premier aeronautical engineers of the twentieth century".