Professor Norman William Gowar (born 7 December 1940) is an academic from the United Kingdom who served as the Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, from 1990 to 2000.
[1] After a period working with English Electric, Gowar was appointed as a Lecturer in Mathematics at City University in 1963.
The first course broadcast by the university in 1971 was an introduction to the mathematics foundation course presented by Gowar.
During the period when Gowar was Principal, the college adopted the name 'Royal Holloway, University of London'.)
His second marriage was in 1981 to Professor Judith Margaret Greene (a daughter of Patrick Gordon-Walker).