E. J. Bowen

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Edmund John Bowen
Harold Brewer Hartley[3]
Doctoral studentsWalter Metcalf

Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen

physical chemist.[5][6]

Early life and wartime career

E. J. Bowen was the eldest of four born to Edmund Riley Bowen and Lilias Bowen (née Kamester) in 1898 in Worcester, England.[7] He attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester.[7]

He won the Brackenbury Scholarship in 1915 to the

Balliol College.[7]

Research career

In 1922, Bowen became a

Domestic Bursar of University College and as Junior Proctor of Oxford University in 1936.[7]

Created a

1935 for his research into fluorescence,[9] he was awarded the Davy Medal in 1963.[10] He wrote a seminal book called The Chemical Aspects of Light.[4][11] He was Vice-President of the Faraday Society and of the Chemical Society.[5]

Much of Bowen's research work was carried out at the

Worcester Old Elizabethan serving on its Committee for many years and organising the Oxford
branch of that club.

During May 1931, Bowen, then a University don, attended a series of three lectures given by

Museum of the History of Science in Oxford where it remains on prominent display to this day.[18]

As well as chemistry, Bowen also had an interest in

ammonite from the Jurassic period, is named after him.[1][21][22] Bowen was involved with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and produced a scale model of the sun, earth, and moon, for the upper galleries in the museum.[23]

Later life and death

Bowen lived for most of his working life in Park Town[24] and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, north of Oxford. Bowen was married to Edith née Moule and they had a son (also a chemist) and a daughter. He died on 19 November 1980 after a short illness.[7]

Bowen room

View in Dr Bowen's Room at University College, Oxford, including a photographic portrait of E. J. Bowen held by the National Portrait Gallery, London

The room at University College that Bowen used was subsequently named the 'Bowen room'.[25] It was used by Emeritus Fellows of the college and later occupied by Prof. Ruth Chang.[26] Bowen's papers (1931–1980) are held by the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.[27][28]

Notable co-authors

See also

  • Ronnie Bell FRS, a physical chemist and Oxford colleague
  • John Albery FRS, colleague and successor at University College, Oxford
  • Bowen's son, Humphry Bowen, another chemist[24]
  • Bowen's grandson, Jonathan Bowen, a computer scientist[24]
  • List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1935

References

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    JSTOR 769866
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  2. Archive.org. Royal Society of Chemistry. 2017. Archived from the original
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  3. ^ "Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" (PDF). North Dakota State University, USA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
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    The Clarendon Press. (2nd edition
    , 1946.)
  5. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30838. Retrieved 10 June 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. ^ "Obituary: E. J. Bowen". The Times. 22 November 1980.
  7. ^
    ISSN 0080-4606
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  8. Lives of the First World War
  9. doi:10.1038/201180b0
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  10. ^ "Davy archive winners 1989–1900". UK: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  11. doi:10.1021/j150450a012
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  12. ISBN 978-0-85404-139-8
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  13. S2CID 143194112
    .
  14. ^ Bowen, Jonathan P. (29 June 2014). "Chemistry and art (slide 37)". Creative Visualization in Chemistry. SlideShare. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  15. University College Record. Vol. V, no. 5. University College, Oxford
    . September 1965. pp. 308–310.
  16. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2018.0002
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  17. ISBN 978-0-300-23476-3
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  18. Museum of the History of Science
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  19. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(86)80001-3
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  20. ^ "Fossil specimen : OUM J.04562 – Holotype". GB3D Type Fossils. UK. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  21. ^ "Perisphinctes". www.geologypage.com. Geology Page. 21 February 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  22. ^ "Ammonite / Perisphinctes boweni / France". Dave's Rock Shop. Archived from the original on 17 December 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  23. ^ Czerkaszyn, Danielle (12 August 2021). "Solving a Celestial Mystery: The Sun, Earth and Moon Model". More than a Dodo. Museum of Natural History University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    ISBN 978-1-899536-25-2
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  25. Archive.org. UK: University College, Oxford. Archived from the original
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  26. ^ "Ruth Chang". UK: University College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  27. ^ "Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of EDMUND JOHN BOWEN, FRS (1898–1980)". UK: The National Archives. CSAC 81.5.81. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  28. ^ "Papers and correspondence of Edmund John Bowen, 1898–1980". Archives Hub. UK: Jisc. GB 463 MS Bowen. Retrieved 26 March 2024.

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