Amateur Science

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Charles Goodyear

Invented rubber vulcanization on his stove by mixing uncured rubber with sulfur powder.

Marie Curie

Discovered radiation in her barn.

Amateur astronomers

• George Alcock, discoverer of comets and novae.
• Thomas Bopp, shared the discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 with unemployed PhD physicist Alan Hale.
• Robert Burnham, Jr., author of the Celestial Handbook.
• Andrew Ainslie Common (1841 – 1903), built his own very large reflecting telescopes and demonstrated that photography could record astronomical features invisible to the human eye.
• Robert E. Cox (1917–1989) who conducted the "Gleanings for ATMs" column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.
• John Dobson (1915), whose name is associated with the Dobsonian telescope, a simplified design for Newtonian reflecting telescopes.
• Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.
• Clinton B. Ford (1913–1992), who specialized in the observation of variable stars.
• Will Hay, the famous comedian and actor, who discovered a white spot on Saturn.
• Walter Scott Houston (1912–1993) who wrote the "Deep-Sky Wonders" column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.
• Albert G. Ingalls (1888–1958), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols. 1-3 and "The Amateur Scientist". He and Russell Porter are generally credited with having initiated the amateur telescope making movement in the U. S.
• David H. Levy discovered or co-discovered 22 comets including Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the most for any individual.
• Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.
• Leslie Peltier was a prolific discoverer of comets and well-known observer of variable stars.
• John M. Pierce (1886–1958) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers. In the 1930s he published a series of 14 articles on telescope making in Hugo Gernsback's "Everyday Science and Mechanics" called "Hobbygraphs".
• Russell W. Porter founded Stellafane and has been referred to as the "founder"[1][2] or one of the "founders" of amateur telescope making."[3]
• Isaac Roberts, early experimenter in astronomical photography.
• Grote Reber (1911—2002), pioneer of radio astronomy constructing the first purpose built radio telescope and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequency.

Source: wikipedia

 

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