Background
Bowman was born on August 5, 1930 in Mineral Wells, Texas, United States; the daughter of John Tom Bowman and Cleo (Frost) Bowman.
Mineral Wells, Texas, United States
Mineral Wells High School
Waco, Texas, United States
Baylor University
Austin, Texas, United States
University of Texas
Texas, United States
Texas Department of State Health Services
Galveston, Texas, United States
University of Texas
biologist educator geneticist scientist
Bowman was born on August 5, 1930 in Mineral Wells, Texas, United States; the daughter of John Tom Bowman and Cleo (Frost) Bowman.
Bowman graduated from Mineral Wells High School in 1947. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Baylor University in 1951. Barbara was given a Master of Science Degree in microbiology in 1955 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology and genetics in 1958 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Bowman began her career as a bacteriologist at Texas Department of State Health Services in 1954 and held it for a year. In 1959, she took a position of a research associate at the University of Texas at Austin. Four years later Barbara held the same position at Rockefeller University. Then in 1965, she became an assistant professor at the same university.
Also Bowman served as a professor of human genetics at the University of Texas at Galveston from 1967 to 1981. Since 1981 she was a professor of genetics and chairman of the department of cellular and structural biology at the Health Science Center of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Bowman was a member of American Society of Biological Chemists, Harvey Society, American Society of Human Genetics and Sigma Xi.