Portrait of a Scientific Glassblower

For the past 16 years, Jim Breen, the highly-skilled artisan, has created glass apparatuses and other vessels for Berkeley researchers not just those in chemistry, but in engineering, earth and planetary science, physics and other fields. Breen, who's blown glass for about 40 years, is one of a dwindling number of scientific glassblowers in the United States. Fifty years ago, the American Scientific Glassblowers Society had roughly 1,000 members; for the past 25 years, the numbers circled 500. But Breen says only about 50 work at colleges or universities. [Show ID: 35132]
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To read the full story, visit: news.berkeley.edu/2019/06/10/glassblower/

[@WineScrounger]

It’s a wonderful craft. Lovely video too. 👍

[@pencilfriendpaperscribbler6032]

Enjoyed seeing this. It’s always interesting to see skilled craft, all the more so areas that are unknown to you.

[@basesmusic]

Great film, thank you.

[@johncourtneidge]

I did my PhD and then Post-doc Research and Teaching at University College London in the Chemistry Department. It was all a Co-operative and Team effort. Some under-rate the so-called 'support staff'. I never did, or would. They were equals. Without them our Research and Teaching work with young and older geniuses would have been impossible. Period.

[@sro1020]

Pouring liquid nitrogen with no gloves ehh

[@jordanpeterson8414]

I like the way he blows.

[@wilinja]

definitely doesn't suck