Bowden, Frank Philip (1903 - 1968)

Summary

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

Details

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

1927 - 1929

Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship [Physical Chemistry. - The mechanism of electrode reactions. University of Cambridge]

1929 - 1931

Award - 1851 Exhibition Research Fellowship [Physical Chemistry. - The mechanism of electro-deposition. The catalytic effect of solid and liquid metallic surfaces. Construction of a quartz monochromator. The cataphoresis of proteins. Contact of polished surfaces. University of Cambridge]

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Record of the science research scholars of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, 1891 - 1960 (London: The Commissioners, 1961), 107 pp. Overseas Scholarship - Entry No.33; Senior Student - Entry No.37. Details

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. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bowden-frank-philip-9550. 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

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5488995. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/34559262. Details
• 'Bowden, Frank Philip (1903-1968)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-795008. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Bowden, Frank Philip', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000247p.htm. Details
• Wolff, Helen, 'Alan James William Moore [1920-2005]', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 2018-09-06, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/alan-moore/. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
• Binnie, Anna, 'A Short History of the Australian Institute of Physics, Part 2: from the Formation of the Australian Branch of the Institute of Physics to the Establishment of the Australian Institute of Physics', Australian Physics, 44 (4) (2007), 128-137, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IN7sV_RIRljwstfZLa7pjQyvisDmp_m0/view?ts=65d6c651. Details
• Clarebrough, L. M.; Head, A. K., 'Walter Boas 1904-1982', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 507-517. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870640507. Details