laboratory assistant
Noun
Meaning
laboratory assistant (plural laboratory assistants)
(sciences) A person who works in a laboratory in a relatively junior position
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Examples
After graduating he was the laboratory assistant to noted polymer chemist Julius Arthur Nieuwland at Notre Dame and helped out with the football team, but rejected further work in chemistry after receiving an offer to coach football.
The award money allowed the Curies to hire their first laboratory assistant.
Within minutes he and his laboratory assistant began to experience miosis (constriction of the pupils of the eyes), dizziness and severe shortness of breath.