Bowman, Isaiah (1878–1950)

Canadian geographer. Bowman assumed an academic post at Yale University in 1905. In 1915 he accepted the Directorate of the American Geographical Society; and in 1935 he became president of Johns Hopkins University. He went on to become chief of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Paris Peace Conference. Bowman's most significant works include Forest Physiography (1911) and Geography in Relation to the Social Sciences (1934).