Jeffrey J. Bowe ’49 AM

Jeffrey J. Bowe ’49 AM, of Boston; Feb. 3. He worked at Air Force Cambridge Research Center, where he served as part of the Semiconductor Advisory Group with senior representatives selected from throughout the industry and government to review and approve all government semiconductor research contracts, while also advising the President’s office on the latest industry developments. He joined Sperry (Conn.) in 1959 as director of research, specializing in silicon integrated circuits, before accepting a position with Radio Corporation of America in 1962 to oversee the development of thin film transistors. In 1966 he was offered a position with NASA overseeing its Electronic Research Center in Cambridge, where his team used newly developed mathematical statistical analyses to test the efficiency, stability, and reliability of the integrated circuits designed for use in the Apollo space program. After NASA’s Cambridge location closed in 1970, he joined the Department of Transportation Systems. He retired from the DOT in 1978 and began teaching at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown and was invited to spend a semester teaching physics at Technical University of Budapest in 1987. He retired from Bunker Hill in 1998. He published more than 150 articles and held a dozen patents. He is survived by his wife, Marion; six children and their spouses; 17 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.