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1A “scientific glassblower” at the University of Southampton is one of about 15 skilled workers still employed by UK universities to produce glassware in-house for the sciences. Lee Mulholland, based within Southampton’s chemistry department, works with glass at temperatures in excess of 1,300°C, known as the “working point”, to produce a variety of equipment including distillation chambers, reaction chambers and specific one-off pieces using glass rods and tubes. Pictured here is the prototype “glass baby”, which Mr Mulholland designed recently for David Phillips, the former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, to replace its broken predecessor which had been used to demonstrate the treatment of neonatal jaundice.
Times Higher Education. Campus Round-up, 17 October 2013
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/campus-round-up-17-october-2013/2008104.article
