"The Amateur Scientist" was a column in the Scientific American, and was the definitive "how-to" resource for citizen-scientists for over 72 years (1928–2001)...
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Independent scientist or gentleman scientist, including a list of notable amateur scientists Professional Semi-professional Amateurism in the NCAA Amateur professionalism...
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The Society for Amateur Scientists (SAS) was a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to "helping ordinary people do extraordinary science". It was...
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A scientist is a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog...
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"Scientific American's The Amateur Scientist Index". Science Hobbyist. Retrieved December 20, 2016. Walker, Jearl (1983). "The Physics of the follow, draw, and...
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Forrest Mims (category American scientists)
Forrest M. Mims III is an American amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series...
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Scientists. He contributed to the columns "Science on Society" on The Humanist from 1990-1992,[citation needed] "The Amateur Scientist" in Scientific American...
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Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes...
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in The Amateur Scientist in December 1975, solves this problem with a rotating disk above a base from which a cable extends up, over, and onto the top...
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British barrister and amateur scientific investigator, who specialised in speech science and the origin of speech. Following the publication of his book...
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Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation...
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Tardigrade (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
making them accessible to students and amateur scientists. Johann August Ephraim Goeze originally named the tardigrade Kleiner Wasserbär, meaning 'little...
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Citizen science (redirect from Amateur science)
scientific institutions; an amateur scientist". The first use of the term "citizen scientist" can be found in the magazine New Scientist in an article about ufology...
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Albert Graham Ingalls (category Amateur astronomers)
editor and amateur astronomer. Through his columns in Scientific American, including "The Amateur Scientist", and his three-volume series Amateur Telescope...
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skilled amateur scientist with a great interest in minerals. The iron mineral goethite is named after him. James Smithson (1765–1829) is well known as the benefactor...
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (category Television series by The Wolper Organization)
the Dead". Bullshit!. Season 1. Episode 1. Showtime. "Now You See It". Riverdeep.net. November 29, 2000. Retrieved 2006-07-21. The Amateur Scientist:...
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Phosphene Sensory deprivation Walker, J. "The Amateur Scientist: About Phosphenes: patterns that appear when the eyes are closed". Scientific American. 244:...
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Schweppe, a jeweler and amateur scientist of Geneva, began the commercial production of carbonated mineral water by dissolving the CO2 under pressure. In...
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Johann Jacob Schweppe (category Scientists from Hesse)
watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water and began selling the world's first...
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"The Backyard Astronomer" (later "The Amateur Scientist") in the 1920s. It also featured numerous drawings by Porter. The two later volumes contained chapters...
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Operation Moonwatch (section During the IGY)
the United States, there was a thriving culture of amateur scientists including thousands of citizens who did astronomy for an avocation. During the Cold...
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Amateur professionalism or professional amateurism (shortened to pro-am) is a blurring of the distinction between professional and amateur within any endeavour...
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(naturalist), American amateur scientist, known for collecting climate change data This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If...
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until 1990, Walker wrote The Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American magazine. Typically, the questions posed by the book are about everyday phenomena...
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Scientific American (redirect from The Scientific American)
Mathematical Games column Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas The Amateur Scientist column A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column Michael Shermer's...
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Crop circle (section Before the 20th century)
with those made by Erich von Däniken. An 1880 letter to the editor of Nature by amateur scientist John Rand Capron describes how several circles of flattened...
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Andrew Cross can refer to: Andrew Crosse (1784–1855), a British amateur scientist Andrew Cross (footballer) (born 1961), an Australian rules footballer...
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Cody Reeder (category Amateur chemists)
Cody Reeder is an American educator, amateur scientist, mechanic and YouTube personality. He runs the popular YouTube channel Cody'sLab. Reeder was born...
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refer to: Charles Dickinson (FRS) (1755–1827), English magistrate and amateur scientist Charles Dickinson (historical figure) (1780–1806), American planter...
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Sundial (section Apparent motion of the Sun)
gnomonics. New York, NY: Pica Press. pp. 189–195. Stong, C.L. (1959). "The Amateur Scientist" (PDF). Scientific American. Vol. 200, no. 5. pp. 190–198. Bibcode:1959SciAm...
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