Daryl SmithNew Haven, Conn.Age: 48Years on Job: 23 Daryl Smith didn’t set out to custom-build radiation detectors. After choosing glass blowing over graduate school, he spent years working for pharmaceutical and chemical companies; becoming a glass blower at Yale University allowed him to use his old-fashioned craft to create state-of-the-art scientific tools. Now he gets all sorts of requests: alterations to standard equipment, designs for prototypes, even glass rods for a detector that went into CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Europe. The machine reveals radiation emitted by charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light–the equivalent of traveling backward in time, according to Einstein’s theory of relativity. “I tell people I’m making a time machine,” Smith says. id=“myjob0107” align=“middle”> name=“my-job-glass” align=“middle” allowScriptAccess=“sameDomain” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=“http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />Andrew MosemanSite DirectorAndrew’s from Nebraska. His work has also appeared in Discover, The Awl, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Playboy, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with two cats and a snake.
