Norman L. Bowen

Norman Levi Bowen FRS was a Canadian geologist. Bowen "revolutionized experimental petrology and our understanding of mineral crystallization". Beginning geology students are familiar with Bowen's reaction series depicting how different minerals crystallize under varying pressures and temperatures."

21 June 1887

Born on the same birth day (21 June): Anne Carson • Charles Momsen • Craig Lowndes • Daniel D. Tompkins • Dimitris Papaioannou • Ewen McKenzie • Flavio Roma • Gerald Kaufman • Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon • Henry S. Taylor • Hideaki Wakui • J. Clyde Mitchell • Jacques Goddet • John Agard • Kōichi Mashimo • Max Wolf • Michael M. Richter • Motoori Norinaga • Old Style and New Style dates • Paolo Tornaghi • Sebastian Prödl • Thaddeus Young

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