Personal Life
Jones married the award-winning documentary maker Norma Percy, an American, in 2004.
Jones is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. He was awarded the second Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year by the National Secular Society on 7 October 2006. On 1 January 2011 he became President of The Association for Science Education.
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