Frank Philip Bowden

Professor Frank Bowden
Born Frank Philip Bowden
(1903-05-02)2 May 1903
Hobart, Tasmania[1]
Died 3 September 1968(1968-09-03) (aged 65)[1]
Alma mater University of Tasmania (B.S., 1925)(M.S., 1927)
University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1929)
Thesis The mechanism of electrode reactions (1929)
Notable awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1955)
Rumford Medal (1956)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]

Frank Philip Bowden CBE FRS[1] (2 May 1903 – 3 September 1968) was an Australian physicist.

Education

Bowden received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tasmania in Australia in 1925. He also completed his Master of Science degree there in 1927. Bowden was awarded his Doctor of Science in 1931 while studying at the University of Cambridge in England.[2] He gained his PhD from Cambridge in 1929.

Career

Between 1931 and 1939 Bowden worked as a lecturer in physical chemistry at the University of Cambridge before moving back to Australia in 1939 to work at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.[2] He returned to Britain in 1946 as a reader in physical chemistry.

In 1957, he became Reader of Physics at Cambridge, and in 1966 became the Professor of Surface Physics.

Bowden died on 3 September 1968.[2]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tabor, D. (1969). "Frank Philip Bowden 1903-1968". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 15: 1–48. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1969.0001.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bowden, Frank Philip - Bright Sparks entry". Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  3. ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Sociiety. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  4. ↑ "Rumford archive winners 1988 - 1900". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  5. ↑ "Frank Philip Bowden 1903-1968" (PDF). jstor. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
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