Desaguliers (1683 – 1744) worked as an experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. He was also a natural philosopher, clergyman and engineer and was elected to the Royal Society. John Theophilus Desaguliers was an experimental assistant to Isaac Newton Further reading John Theophilus Desaguliers. (2023). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Theophilus_Desaguliers&oldid=1162283506
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Robert Fulcher
Robert Fulcher worked as a technician for physicist James Clerk Maxwell at the Cavendish Laboratory.
Robert Hooke
Hooke was a 17th century polymath who started his scientific career as a technician working primarily for Robert Boyle.
Alan Rogan
When, with characteristic anarchic gusto, Pete Townshend of the Who smashed another electric guitar on stage, somebody had to put it back together, that person was Alan Rogan.
Neil Papworth
Neil Papworth sent the first ever text message in 1991 when working as a technician. The message red “Merry Christmas”.
Otto Baumbach
Otto Baumbach (1882-1966) was a glass blower whose work in Manchester was vital to Nobel Laureate Ernest Rutherford.
Joanna Chorley
Joanna Chorley (1925-2019) worked at the code cracking centre Bletchley Park during WW2 on the worlds first electronic computer – Colossus.
Gladys Trim
Gladys Trim (1915-?) started work in the Veterinary Department at the Wellcome Laboratories aged 15. Initially she was not doing technical work but helping other
women in the office with the filing. After 42 years she had worked her way up to senior technician with her name included on several publications.
Den Busby
Den Busby (1919-?) worked at the National Institute for Medical Research from the age of 15. He started work there in 1934 so his career spanned a time of great change for science technicians with improving conditions and a breaking down of old social barriers in the laboratory.
Gareth Griffiths – a steely technician
Gareth is a sculpture technician at the University of Leeds in the School of Design. He helps students bring three-dimensional fruition to their treasured ideas; ideas that until then have only ever existed in their heads. This is his #TechnicianJourney.
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