Thomas Joseph (Tom) Bowles is an American
nuclear
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physicist
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who works at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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. He served as the Laboratory's Chief Science Officer from 2004 to 2006, and also was science advisor to
New Mexico
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Governor
Bill Richardson
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from 2006.
Bowles received his
B.Sc.
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degree at the
University of Colorado
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in 1973 and his
Ph.D. at
Princeton University
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in 1978. He joined the Physics Division at Los Alamos in 1979 and was named a Fellow of the Laboratory in 1994.
He was elected a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
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in 1992
and awarded the M. A. Markov Prize by the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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' Institute for Nuclear Research in 2003.
See also
*
Russian American Gallium Experiment (SAGE).
References
External links
Press releaseabout Tom Bowles receiving the M. A. Markov Prize.
a picture of Tom Bowles
American nuclear physicists
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Princeton University alumni
Living people
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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