Alan Cowley Explained

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

Life

He earned a BS in 1955, MS in 1956, and PhD in 1958, from University of Manchester.^[4] 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.^[5]

He died on 2 August 2020.^[6]

Notes and 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 . 10.1098/rsbm.2021.0027. 244923102. free.
2. Web site: Alan H. Cowley « University of Texas Chemistry Department . 2011-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110812220741/http://www.cm.utexas.edu/alan_cowley . 2011-08-12 . dead .
3. Web site: Alan H. Cowley Texas Materials Institute and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin . www.tmi.utexas.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062420/http://www.tmi.utexas.edu/Faculty/alan-h-cowley/ . 2012-04-25.
4. Web site: Professor Emeritus Alan Cowley Has Passed Away. 2022-02-11. cm.utexas.edu. en-gb.
5. Web site: Cowley Group . cowley.cm.utexas.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426034737/http://cowley.cm.utexas.edu/acowley/Cowley.html . 2012-04-26.
6. Web site: Alan Cowley Obituary - Austin, TX.