Alan Cowley

Alan Herbert Cowley FRS was a British chemist, and Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.[1][2] He was a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow.

Life

He earned a BS in 1955, MS in 1956, and PhD in 1958, from University of Manchester. 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.[3]

He died on August 2, 2020.[4]

gollark: Quite a lot of the people I interact with know more mathy stuff.
gollark: I expect that even if I said "HINT: try looking up "factorize number"" people would complain.
gollark: They don't need to know what potatOS is, only what a semiprime is, and it would be easy enough to just look it up.
gollark: It would be a utopia!
gollark: And then even when it was explained "you can just look up a thing to solve this, it is easy" people just go "AAAA MAFS TOO HARD" still.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.tmi.utexas.edu/Faculty/alan-h-cowley/
  3. http://cowley.cm.utexas.edu/acowley/Cowley.html
  4. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/austin-tx/alan-cowley-9296880
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