Thomas Elliot Bowman III

Thomas Elliot Bowman III (October 21, 1918 – August 10, 1995) was an American carcinologist best known for his studies of isopods and copepods.

Bowman was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1937 and Harvard College in 1941. During the Second World War, he spent four years in the U.S. Army, gaining a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he gained a master's degree, and then worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he gained a Ph.D. (awarded by the University of California, Los Angeles).

During his career, Bowman wrote 163 papers, using a style which has been likened to that of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus. As well as describing 116 new species (including 55 isopods, 28 copepods, one suctorian and one chaetognath), 16 genera and one order, Mictacea, Apseudes bowmani Gutu & Iliffe, 1989 Bahalana bowmani Ortiz & Lenana, 1997 Cymbasoma bowmani Suárez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 Halicyclops bowmani Da Rocha & Iliffe, 1993 Hansenium bowmani (Kensley, 1984)

Taxa named by Bowman include: Antrolana Bowman, 1964 Antrolana lira Bowman, 1964 Bermudalana aruboides Bowman & Iliffe, 1983 Dolobrotus mardeni T. E. Bowman, 1974 Lirceus usdagalun Holsinger & Bowman, 1973 Mexilana saluposi Bowman, 1975 Mexistenasellus nulemex Bowman, 1982 Mictacea Bowman, Garner, Hessler, Iliffe & Sanders, 1985 Mictocarididae Bowman & Iliffe, 1985 Mictocaris Bowman & Iliffe, 1985 Mictocaris halope Bowman & Iliffe, 1985 Remasellus Bowman & Sket, 1985 Sphaerolana karenae Rodriguez-Almaraz & Bowman, 1995 Thermosphaeroma cavicauda Bowman, 1985 Thermosphaeroma macrura Bowman, 1985 Thermosphaeroma milleri Bowman, 1981 Thermosphaeroma smithi Bowman, 1981