Jill Bonner

In 1979–1980, Bonner visited Radcliffe College as a Radcliffe Fellow. She was promoted to full professor at the University of Rhode Island in 1981. In 1982, she became one of the first women to win an award in the new National Science Foundation program for Visiting Professorships for Women, which she used to visit Michigan State University.

In 1977, Bonner was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics with additional support from the APS Forum of International Physics. She was the 1980 winner of the University of Rhode Island's faculty award for scholarly excellence. King's College London gave her an honorary doctorate in 1984.

From 1962 through 1967, Bonner was an assistant lecturer and then lecturer in physics at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 1967 she married John F. Nagle [d], also a physicist at King's College, and moved with him to Carnegie Mellon University in the US, where he had obtained an assistant professorship. Affiliations listed by Bonner in her publications from the early 1970s include Carnegie Mellon and the University of Utah. She filed a formal complaint with Carnegie Mellon University in 1971 regarding a research appointment there, and eventually after "extensive teaching and lecturing experience" became a staff researcher at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1976, she moved from Brookhaven to the University of Rhode Island, hired there as part of a push to improve the university's research profile by new physics department chair Stanley Pickart.

Bonner earned a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1968 at King's College London. There, she was part of the laboratory of Cyril Domb, but her doctoral dissertation, Numerical studies on the linear Ising-Heisenberg model, involved research guided by Michael Fisher. Fisher writes that the idea for their work came from Domb, and that his paper with Bonner became one of his most cited (and hers). Although originally submitted to and published in Physical Review, it received a surprise rejection letter from another journal whose editor, Philip W. Anderson, had been given a preprint by Domb as an example of top current research.

Jill Christine Bonner (August 20, 1937 - July 29, 2021) was a British-American condensed matter physicist known for her research on the behavior of linear systems of antiferromagnetic particles. She was a professor of physics at the University of Rhode Island.