Norman L. Bowen

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Norman L. Bowen (left) with Orville Frank Tuttle

Norman Levi Bowen (born June 21, 1887 in Kingston , Ontario , † September 11, 1956 in Washington, DC ) was a Canadian geologist.

Act

Bowen's research in geochemistry and geochronology made him a founder of modern petrology . His 1928 book The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks set the standard for the following generations of researchers and has long been used as a reference. From 1912 to 1937 he worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which was founded in 1905, and investigated, among other things, the laws governing the deposition of minerals during the cooling of igneous melts . He was one of the leading experts in experimental petrology in the USA and made the Geophysical Laboratory one of the central research centers in this field.

In 1921 Bowen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1930 to the American Philosophical Society and 1935 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1946 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1951 a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei . In 1941 he received the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America , and in 1950 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. The Norman L. Bowen Award , a prize from the American Geophysical Union, is named after him . He is also the namesake for Bowen Cirque , a mountain basin in the Antarctic. Bowen was President of the Geological Society of America in 1946 .

Fonts

  • The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks , Princeton University Press 1928, reprinted in Dover 1956 (emerged from lectures at Princeton)

literature

  • Josh. Chamot: 100 Years of Science History Geotimes . tape 3 , 2002, p. 44-45 .
  • HS Yoder, Jr .: Norman L. Bowen: The Experimental Approach to Petrology . In: GSA Today . tape 5 , 1998, pp. 10–11 ( online [PDF; 347 kB ]).
  • HS Yoder, Jr .: Norman L. Bowen (1887-1956), MIT Class of 1912, First Predoctoral Fellow of the Geophysical Laboratory . In: Earth Sciences History . tape 1 , 1992, p. 45–55 ( online ( memento of December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on January 23, 2016]).

Web links

Commons : Norman L. Bowen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Norman L. Bowen. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Norman Levi Bowen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  3. ^ Geological Society of America - Awards and Medals - Penrose Medal. Retrieved February 9, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Wollaston Medal . The Geological Society of London , archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  5. ^ List of Bowen Award winners. American Geophysical Union, accessed February 9, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Bowen, Norman L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowen, Norman Levi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston (Ontario)
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1956
Place of death Washington, DC