Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen FRS[1] (29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980) was a British physical chemist.

[7] In 1916, after less than a year of his undergraduate course, he volunteered for training as a gunner officer and served as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I.

He was also a prominent Worcester Old Elizabethan serving on its Committee for many years and organising the Oxford branch of that club.

During May 1931, Bowen, then a University don, attended a series of three lectures given by Albert Einstein at Rhodes House in Oxford.

After the second lecture on 16 May, he helped rescue the blackboard used by Einstein;[16][17] Sir Francis Wylie (Warden of Rhodes House) formally presented it to the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford where it remains on prominent display to this day.

[23] Bowen lived for most of his working life in Park Town[24] and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, north of Oxford.