Frank Philip Bowden
| Professor Frank Bowden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Frank Philip Bowden 2 May 1903 Hobart, Tasmania[1] |
| Died | 3 September 1968 (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
- March, 1948 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3]
- 1955 Awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal.
- 1956 Awarded CBE
- 1956 Awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society "In recognition of his distinguished work on the nature of friction".[4]
- 1968 Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics [5]
References
- 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.
- 1 2 3 "Bowden, Frank Philip - Bright Sparks entry". Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Sociiety. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ↑ "Rumford archive winners 1988 - 1900". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- ↑ "Frank Philip Bowden 1903-1968" (PDF). jstor. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
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