| Authorised form of name | Bowen; Edward George (1911 - 1991) |
| Dates | 1911 - 1991 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 14/01/1911 |
| Date of death | 12/08/1991 |
| Activity | Honours:
OBE 1942; CBE 1962
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1975 |
| Age at election | 64 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1992 vol 38 pp 41-65, plate, by R Hanbury Brown, H C Minnett and F W G White
References:
Sir Francis Graham-Smith, 'Seeing Through the Clouds', review of Bernard Lovell, Echoes of War: the Story of H2S Radar in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 159-160
J S Rowlinson, 'The war time work of Hinshelwood and his colleagues' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 161-175
B Lovell, 'The cavity magnetron in World War II: was the secrecy justified?' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 283 - 294 |
| Code | NA6001 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| PB/7/2/4/14/4 | Correspondence with colleagues in Australia, re Blackett's visit to New Zealand and Asutralia, 1966 | June-October 1966 |
| RR/67/247 | Referee's report by Edward George Bowen, on a paper 'The kinetics of decarboxylation in solution' by P Johnson and E A Moelwyn-Hughes | January 1940 |
| RR/62/89 | Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The return of radio waves from the middle atmosphere—I' by Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, A F Wilkins and Edward George Bowen | [December 1936] |
| RR/68/101 | Referee's report by Edward George Bowen, on a paper 'On the heat of sublimation of carbon and on some absorption bands of three mesomeric hydrocarbons' by G J Kynch and William George Penney | [1941] |
| EC/1975/03 | Bowen, Edward George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/RGRS/8119 | Bowen, Edward George | 1978 |
| RR/66/154 | Referee's report by Edward George Bowen, on two papers 'The heat of formation of nitrogen iodide' and 'The thermal decomposition of nitrogen iodide' by F R Meldrum | [1939] |