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unusual facts about American Scientist


Lenore Jacobson

Jacobson, who had earned an MA at California State University, Sacramento in 1951, wrote to Rosenthal after he published a paper in American Scientist about the effect of researchers' expectations on their subjects in psychological experiments.


Homer Jacobson

In 1955 he published "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life," in American Scientist.

Merchants of Doubt

Robert N. Proctor, who coined the term "agnotology" to describe the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, wrote in American Scientist that Merchants of Doubt is a detailed and artfully written book.


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Adolfo Lutz

Lutz was the first Latin American scientist to study in depth and to confirm the mechanisms of transmission of yellow fever by the Aedes aegypti species of mosquitoes, its natural reservoir and vector, as they had been discovered a few years before, by American physician Walter Reed.

Alexander Dallas Bache Monument

The Alexander Dallas Bache Monument is the tomb of Alexander Dallas Bache, a noted American scientist and surveyor.

Chinese intelligence operations in the United States

Wen Ho Lee is a Taiwanese American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

David Scott de Hilster

David Scott de Hilster (born November 13, 1959) is an American scientist, artist, and documentary filmmaker, best known for the documentary film "Einstein Wrong - The Miracle Year" (2014).

David Wong

David T. Wong (born 1936), Chinese-American scientist whose work contributed to the invention of Fluoxetine (Prozac)

Demonstrations in Physics

The series was hosted by American scientist Julius Sumner Miller, who demonstrated experiments involving various disciplines in the world of physics.

Diane Middlebrook

Born Helen Diane Wood, in Pocatello, Idaho, Middlebrook spent the last 28 years of her life with her third husband, Carl Djerassi, a Viennese-born American scientist who helped invent the first contraceptive pill.

Eckler

A. Ross Eckler, Jr. (born 1927), American scientist and mathematician

Edward Tryon

Edward P. Tryon is an American scientist from Terre Haute, Indiana and a professor of physics at Hunter College in Manhattan.

Gary Bennett

Gary L. Bennett (born 1940), American scientist and science fiction writer

George Heath

George M. Heath, American scientist who developed a tuberculosis serum in 1913

George Irwin

George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998), American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials

Hamilton Smith

Hamilton Lanphere Smith (1819–1903), American scientist, photographer and astronomer

Henri George Doll

Henri George Doll (1902, Paris, France – 25 July 1991, Montfort-l'Amaury, France) was a French-American scientist.

History of archaeology

Undoubtedly the major technological development in 20th century archaeology was the introduction of radiocarbon dating, based on a theory first developed by American scientist Willard Libby in 1949.

John Llewellyn

John Anthony Llewellyn (1933–2013), British-born American scientist and NASA astronaut

Joseph W. Kennedy

Joseph William Kennedy (May 30, 1916 – May 5, 1957) was an American scientist credited with being a co-discoverer of plutonium along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl.

Mario Báncora

Thanks to the intervention of the American scientist Ernest Lawrence, Báncora was able to remain in the US after completing his studies and ended up at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed member of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (currently known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Newrite

Newrite is a system of shorthand invented by the American Scientist Walter P. Kistler.

Pseudoscope

In 1853 the American scientist John Leonard Riddell (1807-1865) devised his binocular microscope, which contained the essentials of Wheatstone's pseudoscope.

Shigeho Tanaka

He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.

Shimomura

Tsutomu Shimomura, Japanese-American scientist and computer security expert

Steven Morse

Stephen S. Morse, (born ~1940s), American scientist on emerging infectious diseases

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand is a large-scale opera about Serbian American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943), composed by Tasmanian (Australian) composer Constantine Koukias (1965-), with libretto by Marianne Fisher.

Van Allen Range

It was named after James A. Van Allen, an American scientist and one of the original organizers of the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58.

Vukcevich

Milan Vukcevich (1937–2003), Serbian-American scientist, chess player and writer

William Brownell

William E. Brownell, American scientist that conducts research at Baylor College of Medicine

Wouk

Victor Wouk (1919–2005), American scientist and pioneer in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles