Professor Stanley Bowie: geochemist and authority on uranium geology

Stanley Bowie was a world authority on uranium geology and a leader in the field of geochemistry and mineralogy. During his long career, in addition to lengthy visiting professorships at the University of Strathclyde and Imperial College, London, he was an assistant director of the Institute of Geological Sciences (formerly the Geological Survey of Great Britain and now British Geological Survey) and had senior roles in the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Geological Society. He was a pioneer in the development of geological electronic instruments and also techniques in opaque optical mineralogy, and on the strength of his expertise he was one of only four experts in the UK selected by Nasa in 1970 to examine the Apollo 11 and 12 lunar samples. In 1984, in a fitting recognition of his achievements and his research on opaque... [read full story]