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Bowden, B. Vivian

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Personal name headingBowden, B. Vivian
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Variant(s)Bowden, Bertram Vivian
Found inLibrary of Congress Manuscript Division for Ridenour, L.N. Papers, 1916-1960 (B. Vivian Bowden; correspondent of physicist L. N. Ridenour)
Oxford dictionary of national biography online, viewed June 19, 2012 (Bowden, Bertram Vivian, Baron Bowden, b. Jan. 18, 1910 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire; d. July 281989; British scientist who worked in Washington during 1940s with Americans; became Baron Bowden in 1963; appointed Minister for Education and Science by Harold Wilson; also served as principal of Manchester College of Science and Technology)
Lee, J. International biographical dictionary of computer pioneer, c1995 p. 127 (Bertram Vivian Bowden; made Baron Bowden of Chesterfield in 1963; best known for his 1953 book "Faster than thought" on computers)