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09 february 1995 champaign , illinois toronto , ontario particle physics computer-based education research laboratory february 22 , 1943 solving the anharmonic grassmann oscillator lorella m. jones.jpg lorella jones
 lorella m. jones harvard university , california institute of technology
lorella jones

lorella margaret jones -lrb- february 22 , 1943 -- february 9 , 1995 -rrb- was a professor of physics and director of the computer-based education research laboratory -lrb- cerl -rrb- at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign .
she was particularly interested in the application of computers to physics education and championed the cause of women in physics .
she wrote an essay entitled `` intellectual contributions of women in physics '' in `` women of science : righting the record '' .
she studied at harvard , concentrating on mathematics , and graduated `` magna cum laude '' in 1964 .
from harvard she moved on to caltech receiving an m.sc .
in 1966 and ph.d. in 1968 .
she became an associate professor of physics at illinois in 1974 , later becoming a full professor .
her research was in high-energy physics , particularly the force binding nuclear particles to quarks .
she took a sabbatical in 1981-2 to work at cern , becoming a fellow of the american physical society in the division of particles and fields in 1982 .
she became director of the university 's education research laboratory , remaining at the university of illinois for her whole career and publishing a total of sixty four papers based on her research .
