Joel Bowman

Bowman spent his early years in Boston, Massachusetts, attending school in Dorchester and then moving to Brookline. He first attended University of Massachusetts-Amherst and then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1969. He went to California Institute of Technology for graduate school, and was advised by Donald Truhlar (as he was leaving for the University of Minnesota) to choose Aaron Kuppermann as his advisor. Completing his Ph.D. in 1974, he began his career at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he began collaborating with Al Wagner at Argonne National Laboratory. He held a faculty appointment at Argonne from 1978 to 1991. In 1982-1983 he spent a sabbatical at the James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago, and worked as a consultant at Bell Laboratories in 1984. Bowman moved to Emory University in 1986, where he has spent the rest of his career to date. ==Research interests==

Bowman's research interests are in basic theories of chemical reactivity. Permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) method or polyspherical coordinates. There are advantages to each of these choices. ==Publications, honors and awards==

Bowman, who was the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Emory University, is the author or co-author of more than 600 publications. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences. He received the Herschbach Medal, which is the highest award given by the Conference on Molecular Collision Dynamics. He is an honorary fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ==Selected publications==

• . • . • . • . • Vibrational Dynamics of Molecules, World Scientific Publishing, 2022. ==References==