Person

Bowden, Frank Philip (1903 - 1968)

FRS

Born
2 May 1903
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died
3 September 1968
Cambridge, England
Occupation
Physicist

Summary

Frank Bowden was Professor of Surface Physics, University of Cambridge and Director of Surface Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory.

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Born Hobart, 2 May 1903. Died Cambridge, 3 September 1968. CBE 1956. Educated Universities of Tasmania (BSc 1925, MSc 1927, DSc 1931) and Cambridge (PhD 1929, ScD 1938). Research scholar, University of Tasmania 1926; 1851 Exhibition Scholar 1927-28, senior scholar 1929-31; demonstrator in chemistry, University of Cambridge 1931-37, lecturer in physical chemistry 1937-39; Officer-in-charge, Lubricants & Bearings Section, CSIR, Melbourne 1939-45; reader, physical chemistry, Cambridge 1946-57, reader in physics 1957-66, professor of surface physics 1966-68. FRS 1948, Rumford Medal 1956.

Chronology

1926 -
Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
1929 -
Award - 1851 Exhibition Research Fellowship

Published resources

Book Sections

  • McLaren, Alex C.; Spink, J. A., 'Bowden, Frank Philip (1903-1968), chemist and physical chemist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 228-229. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130259b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Greenwood, Norman N.; and Spink, John A., 'An Antipodean Laboratory of Remarkable Distinction', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 57 (2003), 85-105. Details
  • Spink, J. A., 'Frank Philip Bowden - Scientific Entrepreneur', Chemistry in Australia (1989), 157-160. Details

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See also

Gavan McCarthy

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