BOWEN, John Edmund (b 1885)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP87
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: BOWEN, John Edmund (b 1885)
Date(s)	: 1911-1912
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Bowen | John Edmund | b 1885 | Physics lecturer

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Edmund Bowen was born in 1885 in Galway, Ireland, the son of Bartholomew Bowen, and educated at Queen's School, Galway. He entered Trinity College Cambridge in 1911 and attended lectures delivered by Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. Bowen was a lecturer in Physics at King's College London from 1919-1921, before taking up a post in China.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The papers of John Edmund Bowen consist of two manuscript notebooks containing notes on lectures delivered by Professor Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge, 1911-1912. Bowen's notes consist of detailed summaries of Thomson's lectures on subjects including the discharge of electricity through gases, recombination of ions, recent developments in researches on light and electricity, scattering of electromagnetic radiation and the quantum theory of light.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Lecture descriptions are arranged in approximate date order within the volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to Archives from King's College London Department of Physics, 2001.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The papers of Sir Joseph John Thomson include: Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives: correspondence and papers including correspondence with Lord Kelvin and Lord Rutherford (Ref: Add 7342, 7653-4, 7656); Royal Society: referee reports and correspondence, including letters (25) to Sir Arthur Schuster, 1885-1899; Cambridge University: Trinity College Library: correspondence and papers, 1836-1970 (Ref: NCUACS 91/4/00, CSAC74/4/80); California Institute of Technology Archives: correspondence with GE Hale, 1912-21; University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library 1882-1905: letters (20) to Sir Owen Richardson.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: King's College Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
November 2001