Adrian Bowyer
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Adrian Bowyer is a British engineer and mathematician, currently an academic at the University of Bath.
Born in 1952 in London, Bowyer is the older child of the late Rosemary and John Bowyer; the latter was a writer, painter and one of the founders of Zisman, Bowyer and Partners, consulting engineers.[1]
Adrian Bowyer was educated at Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis and Imperial College London.[2]
In 1977 he joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Bath. Shortly after that he received a doctorate from Imperial for research in friction-induced vibration.
Whilst working in the Mathematics Department he invented (at the same time as David Watson) the algorithm for computing Voronoi diagrams that bears their names (the Bowyer-Watson algorithm).
He is currently a senior lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Bath. Here he invented the RepRap Project - an open-source self-replicating 3D printer. The Guardian said of this, "[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment..."[3]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.zbp.co.uk/start.htm Zisman Bowyer partnership
- ^ http://www.woodroffe.dorset.sch.uk/ Woodroffe School
- ^ Put your feet up, Santa, the Christmas machine has arrived, James Randerson at The Guardian, 25 November 2006.
