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Alan Cowley

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Alan Herbert Cowley FRS[1] (29 January 1934 – 2 August 2020)[2] was a British chemist, and Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.[3][4] He was a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow.

Life

He earned a BS in 1955, MS in 1956, and PhD in 1958, from University of Manchester.[5] He taught at the University of Texas at Austin, from 1962 to 1998. He was the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, at Imperial College, London, from 1988 to 1989.[6]

He died on 2 August 2020.[2]

References

  1. ^ Jones, Richard A.; Kemp, Richard A.; Lasch, Jonathan G.; Lattman, Michael; Norman, Nicholas C. (2021). "Alan Herbert Cowley. 29 January 1934—2 August 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 72: 139–160. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2021.0027. S2CID 244923102.
  2. ^ a b "Alan Cowley Obituary - Austin, TX".
  3. ^ "Alan H. Cowley « University of Texas Chemistry Department". Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  4. ^ "Alan H. Cowley | Texas Materials Institute and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin". www.tmi.utexas.edu. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Professor Emeritus Alan Cowley Has Passed Away". cm.utexas.edu. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Cowley Group". cowley.cm.utexas.edu. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012.