E. J. Bowen

Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen FRS, born in Worcester, England, was a British physical chemist, photochemist, and geologist. He won the Brackenbury Scholarship in 1915 to the University of Oxford where he studied chemistry. In 1916, after less than a year of his undergraduate course, he volunteered for training as a gunner officer and served as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After being demobilised in 1919, he returned to Balliol College. In 1922, Bowen became …