Ira S. Bowen

American physicist and astronomer (1898-1973) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 74

Ira Sprague Bowen was an American physicist and astronomer. In 1927 he discovered that nebulium was not really a chemical element but instead doubly ionized oxygen.

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1973Died6 February 19731966Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyAward1964Henry Norris Russell LectureshipAward1957Bruce MedalAward1952Frederic Ives MedalAward1949Rumford PrizeAward1946Howard N. Potts MedalAward1942Henry Draper MedalAward1898Born21 December 1898

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