Robert Bowie Owens

Robert Bowie Owens (October 29, 1870 – November 3, 1940) was a U.S. electrical engineer.

On August 19, 1891 he was employed as an adjunct professor in electrical engineering in the newly formed school of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska.

After seven years of service he left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Owens served as an officer in World War I, alongside General John J. Pershing.

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