Biographical entry Bowen, Edward George (1911 - 1991)

Summary

Edward George Bowen was Chief of the Division of Radiophysics CSIR/O, Sydney 1946-71 and was Chairman of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board 1967-73. Earlier he was a member of the U.K. radar development team 1935-43.

Details

Born Swansea, Wales, 14 January 1911. Died Sydney, 12 August 1991. OBE 1941, CBE 1962. Educated University of Wales (BSc 1930, MSc 1931) and King's College London (PhD 1934). Member, UK radar development team 1935; Air Ministry Research Station, Bawdsey, England 1936-40; British Air Commission, Washington 1940-42; research physicist, MIT Radiation Laboratory, USA 1943; CSIR/O Division of Radiophysics 1944-71, chief of Division 1946-71; Counsellor (Scientific), Australian Embassy, Washington 1973-76. Chairman, Anglo-Australian Telescope Board 1967-73. Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1957, Fellow, Royal Society 1975. Chairman, Joint Policy Committee of the Anglo-Australian Telescope 1967-1971; Chairman, Anglo-Australian Telescope Board 1971-1973; Fellow and first President, Australian Institute of Navigation.

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Edward George Bowen - Records, 1935 - 1972, DeB 609; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Bowen, Edward George, Radar Days, Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1987, xiv, 231 p pp. Author. Details
• The Radiophysics Laboratory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, A Textbook of Radar, Angus & Robertson, Sydney; London, 1947, 579 pp. Author of Chapter 1. Details

Book Sections

• Minnett, H. C., 'Edward George Bowen, 1911-1991', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details

Edited Books

• Bowen, Edward George (ed.), A textbook of radar: a collective work, Cambridge University Press, London, 1954, 617 pp. Author. Details

Journal Articles

• Bowen, E. G., 'The Prehistory of the Parkes 64-m telescope', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 4, no. 2, 1981, pp. 267-273. Details
• Brown, R. Hanbury; Minnett, Harry C; White, Fredrick W. G., 'Edward George Bowen 1911-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992, pp. 151-166. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920151.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Bowen, Edward George', 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/P000248p.htm. Details
• Brown, R. Hanbury; Minnett, Harry C.; and White, Frederick W. G., 'Edward George Bowen 1911-1991', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, http://www.science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/bowen.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Bowen, Edward George', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-562241. 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, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000248. Details
• Anglo-Australian Telescope Board. Joint Policy Committee., Anglo-Australian Telescope Project: report, 1 September 1967-30 June 1970, Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, Canberra, 1971, v. 29 p pp. Contributing author. Details
• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000248. Details
• Crompton, R. W., 'Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-198', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 8, no. 4, 1991, pp. 249-264. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9910840249.htm. Details
• McPhee, Margaret, Dictionary of Australian Inventions and Discoveries, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1993, 175 pp. Reference on page 3. Details
• Paterson, M. S., 'John Conrad Jaeger 1907-1979', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 3, 1982, pp. 64-88. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9820530064.htm. Details