Oh... And please remember that while technicians assist scientists with the lab duties and experiments they are merely the grunt workers. Technicians work under supervision of the scientist who plans experiments and directs all the work and has full responsibility for the lab and its output.
Thoughtful FReepers are able to go to the web page and judge for themselves.
By the way, Your Arrogance, technicians generally have at most an associate degree in chemistry.
The laboratory’s budget officer actually has total control of all of that stuff. The scientists merely give it names.