Robert Duane Cowan

Background

Cowan, Robert Duane was born on November 24, 1919 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Ralph Ellis and Florence Athey (Eller) Cowan.

Education

Bachelor, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Lund University, Sweden, 1982.

Career

Junior instructor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1942-1944. National Research fellow University Chicago, 1946-1947, research associate, 1947-1948. Professor physics Friends University, 1948-1951.

Member staff Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1951-1982, fellow, since 1982. Visiting professor Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1971. Visiting scientist Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Culham, England, 1977, Zeeman Laboratory, University Amsterdam, 1984, 87, Lund University, 1988, Manne Siegbahn Institute, Stockholm, 1989, 90.

Achievements

• Robert Duane Cowan has been listed as a noteworthy physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Theory of Atomic Structure and Spectra (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences)

    ( Both the interpretation of atomic spectra and the appli...)

  • The Theory of Atomic Structure and Spectra (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences) by Cowan, Robert D. (1981) Hardcover

Membership

Explorer leader Boy Scouts American, Los Alamos, 1970-1976. Fellow American Physical Society, Optical Society of America (William F. Meggers award 1984).

Interests

• Hiking, mountain climbing, genealogy.

Connections

Married Dorothy Mable Martinson, July 6, 1944 (deceased January 1987). Children: Nancy Jean Lemons, Charles Eller, Gerald Stanley, Marjorie Sue Larson. Married Wilma Lou Thornburg, July 14, 1990.

Father:

Ralph Ellis Cowan

Mother:

Florence Athey (Eller) Cowan

Spouse:

Wilma Lou Thornburg

Spouse:

Dorothy Mable Martinson

child:

Charles Eller Cowan

child:

Nancy Jean Lemons Cowan

child:

Marjorie Sue Larson Cowan

child:

Gerald Stanley Cowan