Amateur Science

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Home Science; People who made a difference outside the lab.

Thoughts to ponder

  • What separates an 'amateur' from a 'professional', sheer size of funding and lab space?
  • Have all the 'low hanging fruit' in the world of science really been picked?
  • Science, innovation, and ingenuity in the home or garage helped win WWII during a time of great need for anything and everything


They came first for the chemists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a chemist.

Then they came for the electronics designers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an electronics designer.

Then they came for the computer security experts,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a computer security expert.

And then they came for me,
And by that time no one was left to speak up.

Quotes

  • "Amateur Science allows people to delve into the unknown, unrestricted by their school or labs and what not. That is what true science should be, entering into a mindset that is new and different."

Chemistry

  • Charles Goodyear
    • Invented rubber vulcanization on his stove by mixing uncured rubber with sulfur powder.
  • Marie Curie
    • Discovered radiation in her barn.

Rocketry

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

Amateur Radio

  • Experimentation throughout the years expanded upon capabilities of radio broadcasts

Computer Science

  • Daily innovations, open source projects
  • Fill this section in

 

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