Adrian Bowyer

Adrian Bowyer is a British engineer and mathematician, currently a lecturer 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 [http://www.zbp.co.uk/start.htm Zisman, Bowyer and Partners] , consulting engineers.

Adrian Bowyer was educated at [http://www.woodroffe.dorset.sch.uk/ Woodroffe School] , Lyme Regis and Imperial College London.

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..." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/christmas2006/story/0,,1956793,00.html Put your feet up, Santa, the Christmas machine has arrived] , James Randerson at The Guardian, 25 November 2006.]

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* [http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab Adrian Bowyer's home page]