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William Gordon Bowen (/ ˈ b oʊ ə n / BOH-ən; October 6, 1933 – October 20, 2016) [1] was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. [2] From 1972 until 1988, he was the president of Princeton University. Bowen founded the digital library, JSTOR.
William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, [5] founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in ...
JSTOR was founded in 1995 under the direction of current ITHAKA president Kevin M. Guthrie. Guthrie also served as the founding president of ITHAKA in 2004. [1] Both organizations were initially funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which at the time was led by William G. Bowen.
In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth.
William Bowen (author) (1877–1937), children's author and Newbery Honor recipient; William Bowen (British Army officer) (1898–1961), British Army general; William G. Bowen (1933–2016), former president of Princeton University; Billy Bowen (1897–1960), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wales (RU), Swansea, and ...
Nutra-System and Jenny Craig have managed to persuade dozens of deejays and other assorted radio employees to publicly go on their diet programs. The radio people get the program and the special food for free, but they're not paid for their participation. If it works out, they do testimonials for the system and the station gets a great advertiser.
Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted clemency this week to two convicted officials.. The commutations were announced ...
16th President of Princeton University; In office 1957–1972: Preceded by: Harold W. Dodds: Succeeded by: William G. Bowen: United States Ambassador to India; In office May 26, 1977 – December 10, 1980