John Cowley was an extraordinarily productive scientist over more than five decades. He made pioneering contributions in the fields of
electron microscopy,
diffraction and
crystallography, all of which brought him widespread recognition. He received the highest awards of the
International Union of Crystallography (first
Ewald Prize), the Electron Microscopy Society of America and the American Crystallographic Society, and he was honored by election to Fellowship of the
Australian Academy of Science, The
Royal Society of London, and the
American Physical Society. His monograph Diffraction Physics[6] remains the standard reference in the field. His ideas, enthusiasm and basic understanding of electron optics and diffraction phenomena provided a valued source of leadership to many generations of students and co-workers, and he was universally admired by his peers and colleagues as a great and inspiring scientist.[7]
Selected publications
Cowley, J. M. (1995). Diffraction physics. North Holland personal library (3rd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
ISBN978-0-444-82218-5.
^Venables, J. A.; Hembree, G. G.; Drucker, J.; Crozier, P. A.; Scheinfein, M. R. (2005). "The MIDAS project at ASU: John Cowley's vision and practical results". Journal of Electron Microscopy. 54 (3): 151–62.
doi:
10.1093/jmicro/dfi038.
PMID16123069.