About Otto Baumbach
Lived 1882 – 1966 (aged 83–84). Otto Baumbach was a scientist.
Otto Baumbach (10 September 1882 – 1966) was the glassblower who built part of the apparatus used by Ernest Rutherford and colleagues in the famous Gold foil experiment. In fact, this experiment has been referred to as the Rutherford-Royds-Baumbach experiment:
It was Baumbach's ability to blow, "fine tubes very uniform in thickness." which led to him being key to Rutherford's work. In fact, such was Baumbach's skill that he was involved in many important experiments and acknowledged on some of the associated publications.
Career Baumbach started working at the University of Manchester at some time in the early 1900s and certainly before 1905 when an article, published in May that year, stated:
He had an independent business selling glassware and building equipment. He supplied Robert Falcon Scott with sample tubes for his 1910 Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition.
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Who was Otto Baumbach?
scientist
When was Otto Baumbach born?
Otto Baumbach was born on 10 September 1882.
When did Otto Baumbach die?
Otto Baumbach died in 1966 in Alkrington.
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Otto Baumbach was a scientist.
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