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词条 E. J. Bowen
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  1. Life

  2. Notable co-authors

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name = Edmund John Bowen
| image = Dr Bowen's Room, University College, Oxford.JPG
| image_size = 220px
| caption = 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.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1898|04|29}}
| birth_place = Worcester, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1980|11|19|1898|04|29}}
| death_place = Oxford, England
| nationality = British
| fields = Physical chemistry, photochemistry
| workplaces = University College, Oxford
| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford
| doctoral_advisor = Sir Harold Brewer Hartley[1]
| doctoral_students = Ahsan Ullah Khan[2]
Walter Sidney Metcalf
| known_for = The Chemical Aspects of Light,[3] fluorescence
| awards = Davy Medal (1963)
Fellow of the Royal Society[2]
}}Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen FRS[2] (29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980) was a British physical chemist.[3][4]

Life

Born in Worcester, England, E. J. Bowen attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester. He won the Brackenbury Scholarship in 1915 and 1916 to the University of Oxford where he studied chemistry. He returned to Balliol College after serving as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I.[5] In 1922, he became a Fellow in Chemistry of University College, Oxford, succeeding R. B. Bourdillon, who was briefly Fellow in Chemistry at the College from 1919 to 1921, but who subsequently changed his field of interest from chemistry to medicine. Bowen also served as Domestic Bursar of University College and as Junior Proctor of Oxford University in 1936.

Created a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1935 for his research into fluorescence,[6] he was awarded the Davy Medal in 1963.[7] He wrote a seminal book called The Chemical Aspects of Light.[8][9]

He was Vice-President of the Faraday Society and of the Chemical Society.[3]

Much of Bowen's research work was carried out at the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories in Oxford.[10][11] His 1966 Liversedge Lecture on Fluorescence was based on his life's research. After retirement in June 1965, he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of University College on 6 October 1965.[12] He was one of the longest serving Fellows of that college (43 years as an ordinary Fellow and a total of 59 years). There is a room in the college named after him. He was also a prominent 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 Albert Einstein at Rhodes House in Oxford. After the second lecture on 16 May, he helped rescue the blackboard used by Einstein;[13] Sir Francis Wylie (Warden of Rhodes House) formally presented it to the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford where it remains on prominent display to this day.[14]

At around five generations back from Bowen on a chemistry genealogy tree one will find Liebig and at around fourteen generations back, Werner Rolfinck.[15] The line of supervisors can be traced directly back as far back as Niccolò Leoniceno in the 15th century.

As well as chemistry, Bowen also had an interest in geology, especially around Ringstead Bay on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.[16] Perisphinctes boweni, an ammonite from the Jurassic period, is named after him.[2][17][18]

Bowen lived for most of his working life in Park Town[19] 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.

Dr Bowen's Room, occupied by E. J. Bowen at University College and used by Emeritus Fellows, now occupied by Prof. Ruth Chang, was named in his honour.[20] Bowen's papers (1931–1980) are held by the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.[21]

Notable co-authors

  • Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood FRS
  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS
  • Nevil Vincent Sidgwick FRS
  • Sir Harold Warris Thompson FRS

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[19]
  • Bowen's grandson, Jonathan Bowen, a computer scientist[19]
  • List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1935

References

1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/files/genealogy-web.pdf | title=Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | publisher=North Dakota State University, USA | accessdate=16 March 2012}}
2. ^{{Cite journal | last=Bell | first=R. P.| authorlink=Ronnie Bell | doi=10.1098/rsbm.1981.0004 | title=Edmund John Bowen. 29 April 1898-19 November 1980 | journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume=27 | pages=83–126 | year=1981 | jstor=769866| pmid= | pmc= }}
3. ^{{cite book| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30838 | work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | title=Bowen, Edmund John (1898–1980), chemist | volume=1 | publisher=Oxford University Press | first=R. P. | last=Bell | authorlink=Ronnie Bell | accessdate=10 June 2014 | year=2004 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30838 }}
4. ^{{cite news| title=Obituary: E. J. Bowen | newspaper=The Times | date=22 November 1980 }}
5. ^{{citation |section-url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/434496 |chapter=Edmund John Bowen |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/ |title=Lives of the First World War |publisher=Imperial War Museum |location=London |access-date=13 June 2014}}
6. ^{{Cite journal | last=Bowen | first=E. J. | title=Chemiluminescence from Dissolved Oxygen | doi=10.1038/201180b0 | journal=Nature | volume=201 | issue=4915 | page=180 | year=1964 | pmid= | pmc= | bibcode=1964Natur.201..180B }}
7. ^{{cite web| url=http://royalsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=3273 | title=Davy archive winners 1989–1900 | publisher=Royal Society | location=UK }}
8. ^{{cite book| last=Bowen | first=E. J. | url=https://archive.org/details/chemicalaspectso030786mbp | title=The Chemical Aspects of Light | location=Oxford | publisher=The Clarendon Press | date=1942 }} ([https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6509849M/chemical_aspects_of_light 2nd edition], 1946.)
9. ^{{Cite journal | last1=Bowen | first1=E. J. | last2=Lind | first2=S. C. | journal=Journal of Physical Chemistry | title=Chemical Aspects of Light| volume=50 | issue=6 | pages=490 | year=1946 | doi=10.1021/j150450a012 | pmid= | pmc= }}
10. ^{{cite book| editor-first1=Robert J. P. | editor-last1=Williams | editor-first2=Allan | editor-last2=Chapman | editor-link2=Allan Chapman (historian) | editor-first3=John S. | editor-last3=Rowlinson | title=Chemistry at Oxford: A History from 1600 to 2005 | publisher=RSC Publishing | location=UK | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-85404-139-8 | pages=132, 139, 146–153, 163, 191, 200, 219, 227, 231, 243 }}
11. ^{{cite journal| first=Edmund J. | last=Bowen | authorlink=E. J. Bowen | title=The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories 1853–1940| journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London | volume=25 | number=2 | pages=227–236 |date=December 1970 | url=http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/25/2/227 | doi=10.1098/rsnr.1970.0031 }}
12. ^{{cite news| title=Dr. E. J. Bowen, F.R.S. | publisher=University College Oxford | work=University College Record | volume=V | number=5 | pages=308–310 | date=September 1965 }}
13. ^{{cite journal| first=Robert | last=Fox | authorlink=Robert Fox (historian) | title=Einstein in Oxford | journal=Notes and Records | volume=72 | issue=3 | pages=293–318 | publisher=The Royal Society | date=23 May 2018 | doi=10.1098/rsnr.2018.0002 }}
14. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/blackboard/einstein-text.htm | title=Bye-bye blackboard ... from Einstein and others | publisher=Museum of the History of Science | location=Oxford | accessdate=1 December 2013 }}
15. ^{{cite web | url=http://academictree.org/chemistry/distance.php?refresh=1&pid1=8590&search1=Pietro+Roccabonella&pid2=66027&search2=E.+J.+Bowen&Update=Update | title=Connection from Pietro Roccabonella to E. J. Bowen | publisher=Chemistry Tree | location=USA | accessdate= 27 November 2012}}
16. ^{{cite journal | url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787886800013 | title=A new look at the stratigraphy, sedimentology and ammonite fauna of the Corallian Group (Oxfordian) of south Dorset | last=Wright | first=J. K. | journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association | year=1986 | volume=97 | issue=1 | pages=1–21 | doi=10.1016/S0016-7878(86)80001-3}}
17. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.geologypage.com/2015/02/perisphinctes.html | title=Perisphinctes | website=www.geologypage.com | publisher=Geology Page | accessdate=19 February 2018 | date=21 February 2015 }}
18. ^{{cite web| url=http://web.archive.org/web/20171217005648/davesrockshop.com/ammonite-perisphinctes-boweni-france.html | title=Ammonite / Perisphinctes boweni / France | website=Archive.org | publisher=Dave's Rock Shop | accessdate=19 February 2018 }}
19. ^{{cite book | title=The Changing Faces of North Oxford: Book One | publisher=Robert Boyd Publications | author=Symonds, Ann Spokes | chapter= Families: The Bowens | pages=81–83 | isbn=978-1-899536-25-2 | year=1997 }}
20. ^{{cite web| first=William | last=Roth | title=Bowen Portrait Unveiling | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20131218092508/https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/content/bowen-portrait-unveiling | work=Archive.org | publisher=University College, Oxford | location=UK | date=December 2013 | accessdate=13 December 2013 }}
21. ^{{cite web| url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/1757d7a4-5d17-4feb-ab3c-1cbac471e0be | title=Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of EDMUND JOHN BOWEN, FRS (1898–1980) | publisher=The National Archives | location=UK | id=CSAC 81.5.81 | accessdate=17 November 2015 }}

External links

  • Bowen, E. J. (Edmund John) 1898–1980: Papers, 1921–1980 at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
  • {{AcademicSearch|20139911}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060924213717/http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/history/early.htm Oxford Physical Chemistry: Early days].
  • [https://openlibrary.org/a/OL2120923A/E.-J.-Bowen E. J. Bowen] books, Open Library.
  • Edmund John Bowen photograph by Walter Stoneman (1954) in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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