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Bouwer or Bouwers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alba Bouwer (1920-2010), South African Afrikaans-writing journalist and author * Albert Bouwers (1893–1972), Dutch optical engineer * Ben Bouwer (Barend Daniël Bouwer, 1875-1938), Boer War general, police officer and colonel in South Africa * Marc Bouwer Marc Bouwer is a fashion designer and costume designer based in New York City. He is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America Career Upon winning the South African Vogue Young Designers Award, Marc Bouwer moved to New York City. ...

Alba Bouwer
Albertha Magdalena Bouwer (16 March 1920 – 5 October 2010) was a South African Afrikaans-writing journalist and author. She is best known for her series of children's stories about the experiences of a small girl called Alie growing up in the fictional location Rivierplaas in rural Free State. Late in life she published a novel for adults, ''Die afdraand van die dag is kil'' (The close of the day is cold, 1992), about two women in old age. Life Alba Bouwer was herself brought up on a farm in the Free State, and attended La Rochelle Girls' High School in Paarl, and Huguenot University College in Wellington. Most of her professional life was spent in literary and media circles in and around Cape Town. Immediately after graduation Bouwer began work as a school teacher, but she left teaching to become editor of ''Huishouding'', a newly established women's magazine. From 1948 to 1950 she was a radio producer and presenter in the children's service of the South African Broadcast ...
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Albert Bouwers
Albert A. Bouwers (1893–1972) was a Dutch optical engineer.Ian Ridpath, "Bouwers telescope", ''A Dictionary of Astronomy'', 199first sentence of article/ref> He is known for developing and working with X-rays and various optical technologies as a high-level researcher at Philips research labs. He is lesser known for patenting in 1941 a catadioptric meniscus telescope design similar to but slightly predating the Maksutov telescope. Biography Bouwers was born in the town of Dalen in the Netherlands in 1893.Reflecting Telescope Optics, by Ray N. Wilson, page 498Google Books, pg 498/ref> He obtained his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1924, with a dissertation entitled in Dutch ''Over het meten der intensiteit van Röntgenstralen''. He was also the director of the Philips Laboratory's X-ray department. Bouwers developed a night vision device for viewing in low light conditions, called the "night eye". Albert Bouwers built a prototype for a design for a wide field concentric meniscus ...
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Ben Bouwer
Barend Daniël Bouwer (Ben Bouwer, possibly born during the Dorsland Trek, Damaraland, Southwest Africa, 31 January 1875 – Cape Town, 23 November 1938) was a South African general in the Boer War (1899-1902) and the First World War (1914-1918).Grobler 2004, p. 150. Family Ben Bouwer was born the second child and first son among seven children of Barend Daniel Bouwer (June 5, 1842 - January 10, 1907) and Hester Catharina Regina Engelbrecht (Potchefstroom, February 10, 1854 - Pretoria, July 9, 1941). Possibly his parents were in the first party of the Dorsland Trek starting out in May 1874 from the Transvaal. He grew up the northern part of what is now Namibia, where his father was an elephant hunter. Later his family moved to Angola where Bouwer went to a Portuguese primary school in Moçâmedes (Mossamedes, on the coast of South Angola). They returned to Transvaal where he completed his education, having mastered 11 languages, Ovambo and other Bantu languages included. Bouwer ma ...
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