Obituary: Professor F. P. Bowden

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 546 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(69)90032-7

✦ Synopsis

died in Cambridge after a long illness on 3 September 1968, at the age of 65. PHILIP BOWDEN was born in Tasmania. He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition in 1927 and came to Cambridge to work on a problem in electrochemistry under Sir ERIC RIDEAL. His interest in the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces developed at this time and I have been reminded by Professor PETER GRAY that he was greatly influenced in this by the personality and enthusiasm of Sir WIL;~.;,.~ HARDY whom he met at Caius College. By 1939 he had established himself as an authority on the frictional behaviour of solids. In particular, he developed the role of adhesion in friction and the 87