Frank Philip Bowden

Frank Philip Bowden CBE FRS He gained his PhD from Cambridge in 1929.

Career Between 1931 and 1939, Bowden worked as a lecturer in physical chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He moved back to Australia in 1939 to work at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. He was also named as one of 23 "Men of Tribology" by Duncan Dowson. Much of Bowden's tribology research was performed alongside David Tabor, with whom he published his popular book 'The Friction and Lubrication of Solids '.

Bowden died on 3 September 1968.

Honours and awards 1938 Awarded Beilby Medal and Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry 1948 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 1955 Awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. 1955 Awarded the International Award from the STLE. 1956 Awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society "In recognition of his distinguished work on the nature of friction". 1968 Awarded the Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics 1968 Awarded the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute