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...science education came on my grandfather's knee," he says. He's "been privileged to know Nobel Prize winners and members of the National Academy of Sciences. But in terms of sheer, raw creativity, my grandfather is the best scientist I've known...
Carlson's proposals for home science projects reach tens of thousands of people through his "Amateur Scientist" column in Scientific American. And his ideas have been noticed by, among others, Newt Gingrich, who devoted a paragraph to Carlson in an essay in the magazine Science published earlier this month...
...Carlson's grandfather made his first and only appearance in the scientific literature when C. L. Strong, then the author of the Amateur Scientist column, based a column on his experiments with plant growth under conditions of abnormal gravity...
Carlson has just finished compiling a compact disk with all of the Amateur Scientist columns that have been written since the inception of the series as "The Backyard Astronomer" in 1928. He estimates that he sells 20 copies a day by mail order, and predicts an enormous expansion in sales when the product is picked up by the Ingram Book Group, a major distributor, later this year...
...When most people thing of amateurs they think of their nut file," he says. "Every scientist has a file filled with letters from people with the latest theory of space-time and God and creation that think they're the new Galileo...