Norman L. Bowen

Norman Levi Bowen
Norman Levi Bowen
	Norman Levi Bowen
Born	Norman Levi Bowen; June 21, 1887; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Died	September 11, 1956 (aged 69)
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	BSc, Queen's University School of Mining, Kingston, Ontario; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1912
Known for	Bowen's reaction series
Awards	Bigsby Medal (1931); Penrose Medal (1941); Member of NAS; ForMemRS (1949); Roebling Medal (1950); Wollaston Medal (1950);
	Scientific career
Fields	Petrology
Institutions	Carnegie Institution for Science
Doctoral advisor	Reginald A. Daly

Norman Levi Bowen FRS^[2] (June 21, 1887 – September 11, 1956) was a Canadian geologist. Bowen "revolutionized experimental petrology and our understanding of mineral crystallization". Beginning geology students are familiar with Bowen's reaction series depicting how different minerals crystallize under varying pressures and temperatures."^[4]

Career[edit]

Bowen conducted experimental research at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington from 1912 to 1937. He published The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks in 1928. This book set the stage for a geochemical and geophysical foundation for the study of rocks and minerals.

Personal life[edit]

Born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Bowen married Mary Lamont in 1911, and they had a daughter, Catherine.

Awards and honours[edit]

Bowen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921,^[5] the American Philosophical Society in 1930,^[6] and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1935.^[7] He was awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1941 and served as their president in 1945.^[8] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1949.^[2]

The Norman L. Bowen Award, awarded annually by the American Geophysical Union, is named in his honour.

The astronauts of Apollo 17 named a small lunar crater after him.

References[edit]

^ Norman Levi Bowen — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Tilley, C. E. (1957). "Norman Levi Bowen 1887–1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3: 6–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1957.0002. JSTOR 769349. S2CID 73262622.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Norman L. Bowen: A founding father of experimental petrology (Geochemistry and Geochronology)". science.ca. 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
^ Chamot, Josh. 100 Years of Science History., Geotimes, 3 (2002): 44–45. http://www.geotimes.org/mar02/onexhibit.html
^ "Norman Levi Bowen". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
^ "Norman L. Bowen". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
^ Eckel, Edwin, 1982, GSA Memoir 155, The Geological Society of America — Life History of a Learned Society: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 155, 168 p., ISBN 0-8137-1155-X.

Further reading[edit]

Norman L. Bowen, science.ca Profile. Available from: http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=271
Yoder, H. S., Jr. Norman L. Bowen: The Experimental Approach to Petrology. GSA Today 5 (1998): 10–11. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20130501133735/http://www.gsahist.org/gsat/gt98may10_11.pdf
Yoder, H. S., Jr. Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956), MIT Class of 1912, First Predoctoral Fellow of the Geophysical Laboratory. Earth Sciences History 1 (1992): 45–55. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20050306092622/http://vgp.agu.org/bowen_paper/bowen_paper.html
Norman Levi Bowen Papers, 1907–1980 (Bulk 1907–1955), Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., Finding aid written by: Jennifer Snyder, March 2004, PDF available: https://web.archive.org/web/20050222182019/http://hq.ciw.edu/legacy/findingaids/bowen.pdf
Strickler, Mike, Ask GeoMan..., What is Bowen's Reaction Series?, http://homework.uoregon.edu/mstrick/AskGeoMan/geoQuerry32.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050325182852/http://carnegieinstitution.org/legacy/findingaids/bowen.html Bowen bibliography site
https://web.archive.org/web/20051003223226/http://www.agu.org/inside/awardees.html#BowenList of Bowen Award winners

[nas-1] Norman Levi Bowen — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences

[frs-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Tilley, C. E. (1957). "Norman Levi Bowen 1887–1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3: 6–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1957.0002. JSTOR 769349. S2CID 73262622.

[science.ca-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Norman L. Bowen: A founding father of experimental petrology (Geochemistry and Geochronology)". science.ca. 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2021-10-29.

[4] Chamot, Josh. 100 Years of Science History., Geotimes, 3 (2002): 44–45. http://www.geotimes.org/mar02/onexhibit.html

[5] "Norman Levi Bowen". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-07-11.

[6] "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-11.

[7] "Norman L. Bowen". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-07-11.

[8] Eckel, Edwin, 1982, GSA Memoir 155, The Geological Society of America — Life History of a Learned Society: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 155, 168 p., ISBN 0-8137-1155-X.

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