Honors
Awards
- Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (1942)
- Howard N. Potts Medal (1946)
- Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1949)
- Frederic Ives Medal (1952)
- Bruce Medal (1957)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1964)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1966)
Named after him
- The crater Bowen on the Moon
- Asteroid 3363 Bowen
- Bowen ratio of turbulent fluxes from a surface
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