Laboratory technician

A laboratory technician is a person who works in a laboratory performing procedures, maintaining equipment, assisting lead scientists with their work.

An Iranian laboratory technician at work

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the term laboratory technician was in 1896[1]:

It [sc. a therapeutic property] is now totally abandoned by the advanced laboratory technicians.

The term is now well accepted usage.

References
  1. St Louis Clinique. 9: 395. 1896. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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