Prof RV Jones was still lecturing when I had my first year physics classes at Aberdeen in 1974/75. Later, in about 1982? when I was on 360 Squadron at Wyton, he came to the Sqn for the day when we "re-created" the famous flight over Spalding during which the German Knickebein beam navigation signal was finally located. Hundreds of commemorative booklets had been produced, and he and I spent quite a while signing them (I was the humble pilot of the Canberra T17 used for the live radio hook-up, though the AEO did all the talking).
As senior Scientific advisor to Churchill, the then relatively young Jones had first hand experience and input into some incredible scientific efforts and achievements.
At Aberdeen he was latterly known as "ol twin fees" for managing to appear on both ITV and BBC programmes in the same period.