John Hamilton Bowie

John Hamilton Bowie (born 16 July 1938 ) is an Australian scientist and academic, best known for his contributions to research in the fields of the chemistry of negative ions in the gas phase and of bio-active peptides in skin glands.

Career and Research Bowie was born as the only child of William Hamilton Bowie and Alice Maud Bowie (nee Boyce), educated in Melbourne, and graduated from the University of Melbourne where he obtained an MSc for his work on the colouring matters of Australian plants. In 1961 he started working with Alan Johnson obtained his PhD at the University of Nottingham on the structures of various antibiotics including streptolidine, viomycin, and rhodomycinone, where he came across mass spectrometry for the first time.