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361 Broadway

The building once housed the offices of Scientific American, but it was primarily used in connection with the textile trade.

Actionbioscience

It won an award as one of the best sci-tech web sites by Scientific American.

Aryan race

Thus in a 1989 article in Scientific American, Colin Renfrew uses the term "Aryan" as a synonym for "Indo-European".

Boris Rosing

He followed up with a demonstration of which a report was published in the Scientific American with diagrams and full description of the invention's operation.

Bruce E. Dale

In July, 2009 Dale and George W. Huber co-authored the front page article for Scientific American about the potential of organic food, specifically non-edible organic fuels.

Burr puzzle

On the late 1970s, however, the six-piece burr regained the attention of inventors and collectors, thanks largely to a computer analysis conducted by the mathematician Bill Cutler and its publication in Martin Gardner's column on Scientific American.

Charlie Getzein

The Scientific American magazine responded in July 1886 by publishing an article written by Henry Chadwick (accompanied by several diagrams, two of which are reproduced above) explaining the physics behind the curve ball pitch.

Confetti

Scientific American recorded the throwing of paper confetti (plain shredded paper) at the 1885 New Year's Eve in Paris.

Corwin Samuel West

In 1976, West realized that there is a pump in every cell that actually generates electricity after reading an article entitled "Electricity In Plants" by Bruce Scott out of an issue of Scientific American.

Digitek

Anyone interested in computers during the 60's might recall frequent Digitek advertisements in Scientific American and Datamation magazines.

Electrician and Mechanic

It was a science and technology magazine equivalent to Scientific American or Science.

Fair division

Envy-free division was first solved for the 3 player case in 1960 independently by John Selfridge of Northern Illinois University and John Horton Conway at Cambridge University, the algorithm was first published in the 'Mathematical Games' column by Martin Gardner in Scientific American.

FreeCell

In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors.

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

In November 2004, Climatologists Drew Shindell and Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, received Scientific American magazine's Top 50 Scientist award.

Harry Atwater

His research group’s developments in the solar and plasmonics field have been featured in Scientific American and in research papers in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and Advanced Materials.

HD-4

The March 1906 Scientific American article by American pioneer William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils and hydroplanes.

Hickman sea sled

A new type of vessel, which promises to revolutionize water craft and which takes the same place on the water that the automobile does on land - Scientific American 26 September 1914

Joshua Wurman

Popular articles describing his work have appeared in Discovery magazine, Scientific American, New Scientist, The Economist, Biography, FHM, Self, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and many other publications.

Karol Sabath

He also worked for National Geographic magazine, the Museum of the Polish Geological Institute, the European edition of Scientific American, and various other publishing houses in Poland.

Maggie Murphy hoax

The photograph appeared in numerous publications, including Scientific American and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

Maxwell's demon

The March 2011 issue of Scientific American features an article by Professor Mark G. Raizen of the University of Texas, Austin which discusses the first realization of Maxwell's demon with gas phase particles, as originally envisioned by Maxwell.

Mina Crandon

In 1933, Walter Franklin Prince wrote an article for the Scientific American that claimed Malcolm Bird intended on publishing a confession in the ASPR in 1930 admitting that an act of fraud had taken place to trick Houdini in 1924.

Non-measurable set

In 1989, A. K. Dewdney published a letter from his friend Arlo Lipof in the Computer Recreations column of the Scientific American where he describes an underground operation "in a South American country" of doubling gold balls using the Banach–Tarski paradox.

Pella

J. Makaronas, Pella: Capital of Ancient Macedonia, pp59–65, in Scientific American, Special Issue, "Ancient Cities", c 1994.

Pirate game

Ian Stewart wrote about Steve Omohundro's extension to an arbitrary number of pirates in the May 1999 edition of Scientific American and described the rather intricate pattern that emerges in the solution.

Receiver operating characteristic

; and Monahan, John (2000); Better Decisions through Science, Scientific American, October, pp.

Reed Homestead

The house is notable mainly for its well-preserved murals on the second floor, attributed to Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American magazine.

Robert Claiborne

Robert became an editor at Scientific American, only to lose his job in 1960 after the FBI visited and pointed out to the senior staff that he had been called before the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings as an ex-communist, and had refused to testify.

Schoch circles

In 1979, Thomas Schoch discovered a dozen new Archimedean circles; he sent his discoveries to Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" editor Martin Gardner.

Society for Amateur Scientists

In 1995, Scientific American magazine tapped Carlson, due to his leadership in the citizen scientist community, to write their long running column The Amateur Scientist.

Stellafane

Albert Graham Ingalls, Scientific American editor who wrote stories about Russell W. Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers

Steven Soter

In 2007, after the IAU announced its controversial decision on the definition of planet, Soter published an article in Scientific American in which he outlined a mathematical formulation, the "planetary discriminant", to describe how the IAU's requirement that a planet must have "cleared its neighborhood" of other objects might be applied in practice.

The Columbian Theatre

An article in Scientific American, Spring, 1894, listed J.C. Rogers as buying the eight paintings from the rotunda of the Government building.

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

In August 1922, Scientific American published an article explaining their position that a silent film would be unsuccessful in presenting Albert Einstein's theory of relativity to the general public.

The English Mechanic and World of Science

The magazine popularized amateur telescope construction in the UK and later in the United States after the Reverend William Frederick Archdall Ellison's articles on the subject were reprinted in the Scientific American.

Tony Rothman

Rothman was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov's Memoirs and he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American, Discover, The New Republic and History Today.

Uwe Siemon-Netto

From 1993 to 1994 he managed the redesign of Der Tagesspiegel, a Berlin daily, the Scientific American, in New York, and idea-Spektrum, a Protestant magazine in Wetzlar, Germany.

Young Australian Skeptics

The group has published a Skeptical Blog Anthology Book reviewed in Scientific American, and has been represented in national broadcast media in Australia and North America, skeptically addressing conspiracy theories, as well as discussing topics specific to young members of the skeptical movement.


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