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Bowen, John Edmund, b 1885, Physics lecturer
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1885-
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.
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KCL-AF1027
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0100 KCLCA
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Final
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Further information is available at the National Archives (F73442)