Lennox Lauchlan Cowie FRS (born 18 October 1950, Jedburgh, Scotland)[citation needed] is a British astronomer, and professor at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi.
[1][2] In 1970, Cowie graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc with First Class Honours.
Cowie's research deals with the dynamics of interstellar and intergalactic gas.
At the University of Hawaiʻi, he investigated, with the telescope on Mauna Kea and with the Hubble Space Telescope, the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe and their formation and early development.
[6][7] He was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.