In Memoriam site<\/a> to share personal notes of sympathy and remembrance with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn behalf of our entire University community, I extend our deepest sympathies to Jeffrey\u2019s family, as well as to all who knew him at Bucknell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John C. Bravman
President<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJeffrey Mann Bowen passed away peacefully on November 23, 2024. Jeff was born in Wilmington, Delaware on April 29th, 1951 to Virginia Veness and Griffith Bowen. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Mary Beth James of Ithaca, NY and his children, John and Kate Bowen of Carlsbad CA, Katherine James Bowen of Pittsburgh PA, Becky and Zach Sims of Enfield NY, and Hannah Bowen of Lake Placid FL. Jeff has a sister, Betsy Bowen and three grandchildren, Wesley, Malcolm and Henrietta. He received a bachelor\u2019s degree at Williams College and a PhD at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among Jeff\u2019s finest accomplishments was his long and committed career as a teacher, mentor, and professor. For 35 years Jeff served on the faculty of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA as a Physics professor. His students described Jeff as enthusiastic and energetic with a passion for the complexities of physics and mathematics. His early career theoretical work on black-collisions contributed to the ground-breaking LIGO discovery of gravitational waves in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeff was a parishioner of St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal church, Lewisburg. He taught bridge classes and in 2000 helped rejuvenate the Lewisburg Bridge-a-thon. After moving to Ithaca, NY in 2019, he served on the Vestry of St. John\u2019s Episcopal Church, organized community game nights, and volunteered at Loaves and Fishes meal program and Laundry Love support program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was a lifelong lover of board games, sports, classical music, theatre, travel, and outdoor recreation. He loved spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren and his infectious zest for life will remain in their hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Memorial service will be held on Jan 4, 2025, 11am, at St. Johns Episcopal Church, Ithaca. A Celebration of Life with music and storytelling will be held at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Lewisburg on January 11 at 2pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those wishing to make a memorial donation may contribute to American Field Service afsusa.org\/donate, or to Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County, https:\/\/loaves.charityproud.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The campus community mourns the passing of Jeffrey Bowen, who died Saturday, Nov. 23. Jeffrey retired as professor emeritus of physics in 2014 after 35 years of service to Bucknell. His departmental colleagues valued him as a friend for many years, and admired his commitment to his students and his role in developing an award-winning curriculum. He will be missed. I encourage you to visit our In Memoriam site to share personal notes of sympathy and remembrance with others. On behalf of our entire University community, I extend our deepest sympathies to Jeffrey\u2019s family, as well as to all who knew him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmemoriam.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}