William Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones

William Francis Kenrick Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones (8 May 1903 – 8 November 1982) was a British chemist. Raised to the peerage in 1964, he sat as a Labour peer. Research assistant and lecturer in physical chemistry, University of Bristol. International research fellow, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) (1927–29); lecturer in chemistry, University of Reading (1929–38); Leverhulme Research Fellow, Princeton University (US) (1934); professor of chemistry, University College, Dundee (then a part of the University of St Andrews, but which later became the University of Dundee) (1938–47); professor of physical chemistry, King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne (1947–56) and professor of chemistry and head of the school of chemistry, Newcastle University, 1956-68. Pro vice-chancellor, Newcastle University, 1965-68.

Wynne-Jones was created a life peer on 17 December 1964 with the title Baron Wynne-Jones, of Abergele in the County of Denbigh.[1]

Lord Wynne-Jones died in 1982.