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DR. WILLIAM JOHN BOWIS, whose death occurred on Jan. 25, was born in Nottingham in 1881, and entered the employment of Sir Jesse Boot in 1897, being engaged in the firm's analytical laboratories. From 1903 until 1905 he worked under Prof. A. Werner at the University of Zurich, and took part in Werner's researches on the co-ordination compounds of cobalt, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1905. He afterwards returned to industrial work, and was largely responsible for the development of the soap and perfumery business of Messrs. Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., of which he became a director in March 1909. During the War he took a large part in organising the production of gas masks in Messrs. Boots' factories, and was made an O.B.E. in 1919. Dr. Bowis was a man of great ability and genial disposition, and the loss created by his death will be greatly felt.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 123, 287 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123287b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123287b0