Adrian Bowyer

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Adrian gives a speech about the RepRap Project at Poptech 2007

Adrian Bowyer (* 1952 in London ) is a British engineer and mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Bath .

Life

Bowyer was born in London in 1952, the oldest of three children. He attended Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis and Imperial College London .

In 1977 he joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Bath . Shortly thereafter, he received his PhD from Imperial College London for his work on stress-induced vibration. While working in the Mathematics Department, he and David Watson invented the Bowyer-Watson algorithm named after them.

He then spent 20 years as a lecturer, later as a senior lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Bath. In 2012 he said goodbye to his academic life, but continued to work as Operations Manager at RepRap Professional Ltd. He also invented the RepRap Project - a self-replicating open source FDM 3D printer . The Guardian wrote, "[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment ...".

In January 2016, the company RepRapPro Ltd., of which Adrian Bowyer is managing director, announced on its website that the production and sale of 3D printers would be discontinued. Bowyer cited the growing competition from manufacturers of 3D printers in the low-price segment as reasons.

He is married and has a daughter of legal age.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.woodroffe.dorset.sch.uk/ Woodroffe School
  2. ↑ http://reprappro.com/ ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RepRapPro Ltd  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / reprappro.com
  3. ↑ Put your feet up, Santa, the Christmas machine has arrived , James Randerson at The Guardian , November 25, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Bowyer, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British engineer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH London