Amateur scientist column

Privacy Terms. Quick links. Scientific American "Amateur Scientist" Compendium A place to keep track of reference material - any particularly useful books, articles, etc. The 20's and 30's are all amateur astronomy, but it gets interesting from the 50's to the mid 80's, with projects such as lasers, an arc-jet thruster, a tube based NMR setup, a proton precession magnetometer, and much more. This column epitomized the amateur scientist mentality, and I mourn its passing. I got my copy through the Surplus Shack in Pennsylvania.

Forrest M. Mims III forrestmims. Yes, modern science uses considerably more sophisticated methods and instruments than in the past. And so do we amateurs.

The Amateur Scientist was a column in the Scientific American , and was the definitive "how-to" resource for citizen-scientists for over 72 years — , making it the longest running column in Scientific American ' s history. It also inspired amateur experimenters, launched careers in science, and enjoyed a place of honor in classrooms and school libraries all over the world. Although always accessible to an amateur's budget, projects from "The Amateur Scientist" were often elegant and sophisticated. Some designs were so innovative that they set new standards in a field. Indeed, professionals continue to borrow from "The Amateur Scientist" to find low-cost solutions to real-world research problems.

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