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
Category Archives: When they worked
Robert Fulcher
Robert Fulcher worked as a technician for physicist James Clerk Maxwell at the Cavendish Laboratory.
William Peniber
William Peniber joined the Challenger expedition helping with the preservation of the many samples the expedition collected.
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.
Eva Firmani
Tile technicians like Eva work kept astronuts safe as they left and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
Neil Papworth
Neil Papworth sent the first ever text message in 1991 when working as a technician. The message red “Merry Christmas”.
Gladys Owens
Gladys Owens was just 19 years of age when she arrived to work in the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was 1945 and she was to spend 8 months working there as a technician on the Manhattan Project. Gladys would become one of the “Calutron Girls” whose role, though none of them knew it at the time, was key to the building of the first atomic bomb.
Fanny Hesse
Fanny Hesse (1850-1934) was a lab technician and technical illustrator who introduced agar to the study of bacteria revolutionising microbiology.
Otto Baumbach
Otto Baumbach (1882-1966) was a glass blower whose work in Manchester was vital to Nobel Laureate Ernest Rutherford.
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