Alan Herbert CowleyFRS[1] (29 January 1934 – 2 August 2020)[2] was a Britishchemist, and Robert A. Welch Chair at theUniversity of Texas at Austin.[3][4] He was a 1976Guggenheim Fellow.
He earned a BS in 1955, MS in 1956, and PhD in 1958, fromUniversity of Manchester.[5] He taught at the University of Texas at Austin, from 1962 to 1998. He was the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, atImperial College, London, from 1988 to 1989.[6]
He died on 2 August 2020.[2]