Richard Glenn Bowmer

Posted on by Carol Ann McCormick

(4 December 1931 – ?)1

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 65 vascular plant specimens collected by Richard Glenn Bowmer, who consistently signed herbarium labels as “R. G. Bowmer”.  The specimens at NCU were collected in 1957, most are from the Piedmont region of North Carolina.

Other herbaria curate specimens collected by Dr. Bowmer, but all appear to be duplicates of those at NCU.  Herbaria curating specimens collected by Bowmer include Arizona State University (ASU), Auburn University (AUA), Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM), Delta State University (DSC), Furman University (FUGR), Georgia Southern University (GAS), Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (GH), Indiana University (IND), Murray State University (MUR), Old Dominion University (ODU), The Pennsylvania State University (PAC), University of Kansas (KANU), University of Memphis (MEM), University of Michigan (MICH), University of Minnesota (MIN), University of South Carolina (USCH), University of South Florida (USF), University of Southern Mississippi (USMS), University of the South (UOS), University of Wisconsin, Madison (WIS), Valdosta State University (VSC), Western Carolina University (WCUH), and the College of William & Mary (WILLI).3

Richard Glenn Bowmer was born in Spokane, Washington on 4 December 1931.  He served in the United States Army in Korea from 1953-1955.2  He earned a B.S. in 1953 from the University of Idaho.  He earned a M.S. from the University of Idaho in 1957 with his thesis, “Uses of radioactive phosphorus and disodium fluorescein as tracers in translocation studies”.1 He studied with Dr. Victor A. Greulach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his doctorate in 1960 with his thesis, “The influence of various factors on the rate of translocation of fluorescein in Gossypium hirsutum L.”.  His research interest throughout his career was the translocation of solutes in higher plants.  He served as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, from 1960-1961.  In 1961 he began his long association with the Department of Biological Sciences of Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.  He rose to the rank of full professor, and retired in 1997.1

PUBLICATIONS:
Bowmer, Richard Glenn.  1957.  Uses of radioactive phosphorus and disodium fluorescein as tracers in translocation studies.  M.S. Thesis, University of Idaho.
Bowmer, Richard Glenn.  1960.  The influence of various factors on the rate of translocation of fluorescein in Gossypium hirsutum L.  Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Botany, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dayis, Ray J. and Richard G. Bowmer.  1966.  Chromosome numbers in Claytonia.  Brittonia 18: 37-38.
Crapo, Norman L. and Richard G. Bowmer.  1973.  Respiratory rates in roots of detopped and intact corn.  OIKOS 24:465-468.

SOURCES:

  1. “Bowmer, Richard Glenn.” American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today’s Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, edited by Andrea Kovacs Henderson, 26th ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2009, p. 762. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3004612264/GVRL?u=unc_main&sid=summon&xid=98dfca27. Accessed 4 Jan. 2023.
  2. https://prabook.com/web/richard_glenn.bowmer/3356939  accessed on 4 Jan. 2023.
  3. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on January 04.