Whatman Staff Association
Whatman may refer to: * Whatman plc, British laboratory equipment making-company now part of GE Healthcare * Amherst Barrow Whatman (1909–1984), British wireless operator and radio engineer * James Whatman (papermaker) (1702–1759) an English papermaker * James Whatman (politician) (1813–1887), Liberal Member of Parliament for Maidstone and Western Kent *Thomas Whatman Thomas Whatman (1576–1630), of Chichester, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chichester in 1621 and 1624 and for Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial co ...

Whatman Plc
Whatman plc is a Cytiva brand specialising in laboratory filtration products and separation technologies. Whatman products cover a range of laboratory applications that require filtration, sample collection (cards and kits), blotting, lateral flow components and flow-through assays and other general laboratory accessories. Formerly Whatman plc, the company was originally acquired in 2008 by GE Healthcare, which became Cytiva in April 2020. History Founder's innovation and impact The papermaker James Whatman the Elder (1702–1759) founded the Whatman papermaking enterprise in 1740 in Maidstone, Kent, England. He made revolutionary advances to the craft in England and is credited as the inventor of wove paper (or Vélin), an innovation used for high-quality art and printing. His son, James Whatman the Younger (1741–1798), further developed the company's techniques. At a time when the craft was based in smaller paper mills, Whatman innovations led to the large-scale and wid ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Amherst Barrow Whatman
Lieutenant colonel Amherst Barrow "Brownie" Whatman MBE (1 November 1909 – 5 November 1984), FIEE, was a British wireless operator and radio engineer. He was the only child of Major Amherst Blunt Whatman and Myrtle Ellen Waller Barrow. He followed the military career and he joined the Royal Corps of Signals. Education Born in Exeter, Whatman was educated at Twyford School and during 1923–1927 he attended Winchester College, where he developed an interest for wireless that led to get his first radio call sign around 1927 (6BW). The licence actually was issued to his mother because of him being a junior. The licence permitted 10W output power. At Winchester College he would meet another famous radio amateur, Sir Evan Yorke Nepean, G5YN that went on to be a life-time friendship. In 1929 he joined the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and in 1933 he moved to Cambridge to study Mechanical Sciences at St John's College. The college was also the home of Andrew Croft, second in c ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

James Whatman (papermaker)
James Whatman (1702–1759), the Elder, was a paper maker, born in Kent, who made revolutionary advances to the craft in England. He is noted as the inventor of wove paper (or Vélin), an innovation used for high-quality art and printing. The techniques continued to be developed by his son, James Whatman the Younger (1741–1798). At a time when the craft was based in smaller paper mills, his innovations led to the large scale and widespread industrialisation of paper manufacturing. Life Whatman was the last child and only son of Mary and James Whatman. His father was a tanner and his son inherited the business in 1726 when his mother died. This Whatman continued the tanning business but in 1733 he was starting to make paper at the Old Mill in Hollingbourne. He assisted James Harris who built a new paper mill there. Harris died in 1739 and Whatman married his widow and gained Harris's business. This James Whatman had been approached by John Baskerville, who needed paper that wo ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

James Whatman (politician)
James Whatman (1813 – 12 March 1887) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1874. Whatman was the son of James Whatman of Vinter's, near Maidstone and his wife Eliza Susanna Gaussen, daughter of Samuel Richard Gaussen of Brookman's Park, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford graduating with BA 4th class in classics in 1834 and MA in 1838. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 9 January 1840 and was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Whatman was a director of the South Eastern Railway. He was a captain in the West Kent Militia and was a Deputy Lieutenant of London and a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Kent. Whatman was elected at 1852 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for the Maidstone, but at the 1857 general election he did not stand again in Maidstone, and instead won one of the two seats for the Western division of Kent. He was d ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]