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December 18, 2023

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it, with more than 150 Nobel Prize-winners being featured since its inception.[2]

Scientific American
Cover of a 1905 issue
DisciplinePopular science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byLaura Helmuth
Publication details
HistorySince August 28, 1845; 178 years ago (1845-08-28)
Publisher
Springer Nature (United States)
FrequencyMonthly
Yes
2.142 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2)
NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4Sci. Am.
Indexing
CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN0036-8733
LCCNsf92091111
OCLC no.796985030
Links
  • Journal homepage
"Men of Progress", published by the magazine in 1862, showing American inventors such as Samuel Morse, Samuel Colt, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Goodyear, Peter Cooper, and others[1]
Scientific American Office, New York, 37 Park Row, 1859

In print since 1845, it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Scientific American is owned by Springer Nature, which in turn is a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

History edit

 
Interior of the Scientific American Office at 361 Broadway
 
Scientific American early office at 361 Broadway in Manhattan
 
Scientific American Office at the Woolworth Building, New York, 1915, built in 1913 by Frank Winfield Woolworth[3]
 
The Scientific American building at 24-26 West 40th Street, commissioned by Munn and Co. in 1924[4]

Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845[5] as a four-page weekly newspaper. The first issue of the large-format New York City newspaper was released on August 28, 1845.[6]

Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured. Current issues include a "this date in history" section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology. It started as a weekly publication in August 1845 before turning into a monthly in November 1921.[7]

Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach, son of media magnate Moses Yale Beach, and Orson Desaix Munn, a mere ten months after founding it. Editors and co-owners from the Yale family included Frederick C. Beach and his son, Stanley Yale Beach, and from the Munn family, Charles Allen Munn and his nephew, Orson Desaix Munn II.[8] Until 1948, it remained owned by the families under Munn & Company.[5] Under Orson Munn's grandson, Orson Desaix Munn III, it had evolved into something of a "workbench" publication, similar to the 20th-century incarnation of Popular Science.

In the years after World War II, the magazine fell into decline. In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine. Thus the partners—publisher Gerard Piel, editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller Jr. essentially created a new magazine.[9] Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. In 1986, it was sold to the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany, which has owned it until the Springer-Nature merger. In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of Holtzbrinck's Nature Publishing Group division.[10]

Donald Miller died in December 1998,[11] Gerard Piel in September 2004 and Dennis Flanagan in January 2005. Mariette DiChristina became editor-in-chief after John Rennie stepped down in June 2009,[10] and stepped down herself in September 2019. In April 2020, Laura Helmuth assumed the role of editor-in-chief.

The magazine is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.[12][13]

In 2009 the publisher notified collegiate libraries that yearly subscription prices for the magazine would increase by nearly 500% for print and 50% for online access to $1,500 yearly.[14]

In 2013, Danielle N. Lee, a female scientist who blogged at Scientific American, was called a "whore" in an email by an editor at the science website Biology Online after refusing to write professional content without compensation. When Lee, outraged about the email, wrote a rebuttal on her Scientific American blog, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, Mariette DiChristina, removed the post. DiChristina cited legal reasons for removing the blog.[15][16][17] The editor at Biology Online was fired after the incident.

The controversy widened in the ensuing days. The magazine's blog editor, Bora Zivkovic, was the subject of allegations of sexual harassment by another blogger, Monica Byrne.[18][19] Although the alleged incident had occurred about a year earlier, editor Mariette DiChristina informed readers that the incident had been investigated and resolved to Byrne's satisfaction.[20] However, the incident involving Lee had prompted Byrne to reveal the identity of Zivkovic, following the latter's support of Lee. Zivkovic admitted the incident with Byrne had taken place.[21] He apologized to Byrne, and referred to the incident as "singular", stating that his behavior was not "engaged in before or since".[21]

Zivkovic resigned from the board of Science Online, the popular science blogging conference that he co-founded with Anton Zuiker.[22] Following Zivkovic's admission, several female bloggers, including other bloggers for the magazine, wrote their own accounts, alleging additional incidents of sexual harassment, although none of these accounts were independently investigated.[19][23][24][25] A day after these new revelations, Zivkovic resigned from his position at Scientific American.[26]

Offices of the Scientific American have included 37 Park Row in Manhattan and the Woolworth Building in 1915 when it was just finished two years earlier in 1913.[27] The Woolworth Building was at the time one of the first skyscrapers in the city and the tallest one in the world.[28]

International editions edit

 
American compressed air locomotive used in boring the Rove Tunnel, Southern France

Scientific American published its first foreign edition in 1890, the Spanish-language La America Cientifica. Publication was suspended in 1905, and another 63 years would pass before another foreign-language edition appeared: In 1968, an Italian edition, Le Scienze, was launched, and a Japanese edition, Nikkei Science [ja], followed three years later. A new Spanish edition, Investigación y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976, followed by a French edition, Pour la Science [fr], in France in 1977, and a German edition, Spektrum der Wissenschaft [de], in Germany in 1978. A Russian edition V Mire Nauki (Russian: «В мире науки») was launched in the Soviet Union in 1983, and continues in the present-day Russian Federation.[29] Kexue (科学, "Science" in Chinese), a simplified Chinese edition launched in 1979, was the first Western magazine published in the People's Republic of China.

Founded in Chongqing, the simplified Chinese magazine was transferred to Beijing in 2001. Later in 2005, a newer edition, Global Science (环球科学), was published instead of Kexue, which shut down due to financial problems. A traditional Chinese edition, known as Scientist [zh], was introduced to Taiwan in 2002. The Hungarian edition Tudomány existed between 1984 and 1992. In 1986, an Arabic edition, Oloom Magazine [ar], was published. In 2002, a Portuguese edition was launched in Brazil. The Spanish edition ended in 2023 due to the worsening of economic conditions.[30]

Today, Scientific American publishes 17 foreign-language editions around the globe: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian (discontinued after 15 issues), Polish, Romanian, and Russian. From 1902 to 1911, Scientific American supervised the publication of the Encyclopedia Americana, which during some of that period was known as The Americana.

Some famous individuals who penned articles in the magazine included Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Jonas Salk, Marie Curie, Stephen Hawking, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen Jay Gould, Bill Gates, Nikola Tesla, and more.[31] Charles Darwin was featured when he published On the Origin of Species, as well as the Wright Brothers when they were working on their flying machines.[32] The magazine also covered the U.S. through its Sputnik moment with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, which symbolically started the "Space Age".

Editors edit

Special issues edit

 
Special Navy Supplement, 1898

Website edit

In March 1996, Scientific American launched its own website that included articles from current and past issues, online-only features, daily news, special reports, and trivia, among other things.[citation needed] The website introduced a paywall in April 2019, with readers able to view a few articles for free each month.[38]

Columns edit

 
British Army reconnaissance airboat on the Tigris River during the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I

Notable features have included:

Television edit

From 1990 to 2005 Scientific American produced a television program on PBS called Scientific American Frontiers with hosts Woodie Flowers[39] and Alan Alda.[40]

Books edit

Main article: Scientific American Library
 
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT No. 1100 January 30, 1897, featuring Canet naval guns for the Greek ironclads

From 1983 to 1997, Scientific American has produced an encyclopedia set of volumes from their publishing division, the Scientific American Library. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a Book of the Month Club selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.

Topics covered dozens of areas of scientific knowledge and included in-depth essays on: The Animal Mind; Atmosphere, Climate, and Change; Beyond the Third Dimension; Cosmic Clouds; Cycles of Life • Civilization and the Biosphere; The Discovery of Subatomic Particles; Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest; Earthquakes and Geological Discovery; Exploring Planetary Worlds; Gravity's Fatal Attraction; Fire; Fossils and the History of Life; From Quarks to the Cosmos; A Guided Tour of the Living Cell; Human Diversity; Perception; The Solar System; Sun and Earth; The Science of Words (Linguistics); The Science of Musical Sound; The Second Law (of Thermodynamics); Stars; Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science.[41]

Scientific American launched a publishing imprint in 2010 in partnership with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[42]

  • DiChristina, Mariette (2017). Scientific American – The Science Behind the Debates. Special Collector's Edition. Winter 2017/2018. Scientific American. A "collection of updated or adapted Scientific American articles and shorter pieces... ". According to editor Andrea Gawrylewski 'The reader will quickly notice a common theme. ... there really is no debate where the science is concerned'". Contributors include Seth Shostak, Paul Offit, Richard Dawkins and Harriet Hall.[43]

Scientific and political debate edit

In April 1950, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ordered Scientific American to cease publication of an issue containing an article by Hans Bethe that appeared to reveal classified information about the thermonuclear hydrogen bomb. Subsequent review of the material determined that the AEC had overreacted. The incident was important for the "new" Scientific American's history, as the AEC's decision to burn 3,000 copies of an early press-run of the magazine containing the offending material appeared to be "book burning in a free society" when publisher Gerard Piel leaked the incident to the press.[44]

In the October 2020 issue of the magazine, it endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election, citing Donald Trump's rejection of scientific evidence, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[45][46] In the column reporting the endorsement, the magazine's editors said, "Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly."[47]

Awards edit

  • 2010: IQ Award for the German edition Spektrum der Wissenschaft

See also edit

References edit

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Scientific American informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA is an American popular science magazine Many famous scientists including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla have contributed articles to it with more than 150 Nobel Prize winners being featured since its inception 2 Scientific AmericanCover of a 1905 issueDisciplinePopular scienceLanguageEnglishEdited byLaura HelmuthPublication detailsHistorySince August 28 1845 178 years ago 1845 08 28 PublisherSpringer Nature United States FrequencyMonthlyOpen accessYesImpact factor2 142 2020 Standard abbreviationsISO 4 alt Bluebook alt1 alt2 NLM alt MathSciNet alt ISO 4Sci Am IndexingCODEN alt alt2 JSTOR alt LCCN alt MIAR NLM alt ScopusISSN0036 8733LCCNsf92091111OCLC no 796985030LinksJournal homepage Men of Progress published by the magazine in 1862 showing American inventors such as Samuel Morse Samuel Colt Cyrus McCormick Charles Goodyear Peter Cooper and others 1 Scientific American Office New York 37 Park Row 1859In print since 1845 it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States Scientific American is owned by Springer Nature which in turn is a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Contents 1 History 2 International editions 3 Editors 4 Special issues 5 Website 6 Columns 7 Television 8 Books 9 Scientific and political debate 10 Awards 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksHistory edit nbsp Interior of the Scientific American Office at 361 Broadway nbsp Scientific American early office at 361 Broadway in Manhattan nbsp Scientific American Office at the Woolworth Building New York 1915 built in 1913 by Frank Winfield Woolworth 3 nbsp The Scientific American building at 24 26 West 40th Street commissioned by Munn and Co in 1924 4 Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 5 as a four page weekly newspaper The first issue of the large format New York City newspaper was released on August 28 1845 6 Throughout its early years much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U S Patent Office It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln and the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured Current issues include a this date in history section featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50 100 and 150 years earlier Topics include humorous incidents wrong headed theories and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology It started as a weekly publication in August 1845 before turning into a monthly in November 1921 7 Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach son of media magnate Moses Yale Beach and Orson Desaix Munn a mere ten months after founding it Editors and co owners from the Yale family included Frederick C Beach and his son Stanley Yale Beach and from the Munn family Charles Allen Munn and his nephew Orson Desaix Munn II 8 Until 1948 it remained owned by the families under Munn amp Company 5 Under Orson Munn s grandson Orson Desaix Munn III it had evolved into something of a workbench publication similar to the 20th century incarnation of Popular Science In the years after World War II the magazine fell into decline In 1948 three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine to be called The Sciences purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine Thus the partners publisher Gerard Piel editor Dennis Flanagan and general manager Donald H Miller Jr essentially created a new magazine 9 Miller retired in 1979 Flanagan and Piel in 1984 when Gerard Piel s son Jonathan became president and editor circulation had grown fifteen fold since 1948 In 1986 it was sold to the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany which has owned it until the Springer Nature merger In the fall of 2008 Scientific American was put under the control of Holtzbrinck s Nature Publishing Group division 10 Donald Miller died in December 1998 11 Gerard Piel in September 2004 and Dennis Flanagan in January 2005 Mariette DiChristina became editor in chief after John Rennie stepped down in June 2009 10 and stepped down herself in September 2019 In April 2020 Laura Helmuth assumed the role of editor in chief The magazine is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States 12 13 In 2009 the publisher notified collegiate libraries that yearly subscription prices for the magazine would increase by nearly 500 for print and 50 for online access to 1 500 yearly 14 In 2013 Danielle N Lee a female scientist who blogged at Scientific American was called a whore in an email by an editor at the science website Biology Online after refusing to write professional content without compensation When Lee outraged about the email wrote a rebuttal on her Scientific American blog the editor in chief of Scientific American Mariette DiChristina removed the post DiChristina cited legal reasons for removing the blog 15 16 17 The editor at Biology Online was fired after the incident The controversy widened in the ensuing days The magazine s blog editor Bora Zivkovic was the subject of allegations of sexual harassment by another blogger Monica Byrne 18 19 Although the alleged incident had occurred about a year earlier editor Mariette DiChristina informed readers that the incident had been investigated and resolved to Byrne s satisfaction 20 However the incident involving Lee had prompted Byrne to reveal the identity of Zivkovic following the latter s support of Lee Zivkovic admitted the incident with Byrne had taken place 21 He apologized to Byrne and referred to the incident as singular stating that his behavior was not engaged in before or since 21 Zivkovic resigned from the board of Science Online the popular science blogging conference that he co founded with Anton Zuiker 22 Following Zivkovic s admission several female bloggers including other bloggers for the magazine wrote their own accounts alleging additional incidents of sexual harassment although none of these accounts were independently investigated 19 23 24 25 A day after these new revelations Zivkovic resigned from his position at Scientific American 26 Offices of the Scientific American have included 37 Park Row in Manhattan and the Woolworth Building in 1915 when it was just finished two years earlier in 1913 27 The Woolworth Building was at the time one of the first skyscrapers in the city and the tallest one in the world 28 International editions editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp American compressed air locomotive used in boring the Rove Tunnel Southern FranceScientific American published its first foreign edition in 1890 the Spanish language La America Cientifica Publication was suspended in 1905 and another 63 years would pass before another foreign language edition appeared In 1968 an Italian edition Le Scienze was launched and a Japanese edition Nikkei Science ja followed three years later A new Spanish edition Investigacion y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976 followed by a French edition Pour la Science fr in France in 1977 and a German edition Spektrum der Wissenschaft de in Germany in 1978 A Russian edition V Mire Nauki Russian V mire nauki was launched in the Soviet Union in 1983 and continues in the present day Russian Federation 29 Kexue 科学 Science in Chinese a simplified Chinese edition launched in 1979 was the first Western magazine published in the People s Republic of China Founded in Chongqing the simplified Chinese magazine was transferred to Beijing in 2001 Later in 2005 a newer edition Global Science 环球科学 was published instead of Kexue which shut down due to financial problems A traditional Chinese edition known as Scientist zh was introduced to Taiwan in 2002 The Hungarian edition Tudomany existed between 1984 and 1992 In 1986 an Arabic edition Oloom Magazine ar was published In 2002 a Portuguese edition was launched in Brazil The Spanish edition ended in 2023 due to the worsening of economic conditions 30 Today Scientific American publishes 17 foreign language editions around the globe Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Czech Dutch French German Greek Hebrew Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian discontinued after 15 issues Polish Romanian and Russian From 1902 to 1911 Scientific American supervised the publication of the Encyclopedia Americana which during some of that period was known as The Americana Some famous individuals who penned articles in the magazine included Albert Einstein Thomas Edison Jonas Salk Marie Curie Stephen Hawking Franklin D Roosevelt Stephen Jay Gould Bill Gates Nikola Tesla and more 31 Charles Darwin was featured when he published On the Origin of Species as well as the Wright Brothers when they were working on their flying machines 32 The magazine also covered the U S through its Sputnik moment with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite which symbolically started the Space Age Editors editRufus Porter 1792 1884 first editor 1845 1847 Orson Desaix Munn 1824 1907 second editor 1847 1907 33 Charles Allen Munn 1859 1924 third editor 1907 1924 34 35 Orson Desaix Munn II 1883 1958 fourth editor 1924 1947 Dennis Flanagan 1919 2005 fifth editor 1947 1984 36 Jonathan Piel sixth editor in chief 1984 1994 John Rennie seventh editor in chief 1994 2009 Mariette DiChristina eighth editor in chief 2009 2019 Laura Helmuth ninth editor in chief April 2020 present 37 Special issues edit nbsp Special Navy Supplement 1898Communications Computers and Networks September 1991Website editIn March 1996 Scientific American launched its own website that included articles from current and past issues online only features daily news special reports and trivia among other things citation needed The website introduced a paywall in April 2019 with readers able to view a few articles for free each month 38 Columns edit nbsp British Army reconnaissance airboat on the Tigris River during the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War INotable features have included Martin Gardner s Mathematical Games column Douglas Hofstadter s Metamagical Themas The Amateur Scientist column A K Dewdney s Computer Recreations column Michael Shermer s Skeptic column James Burke s ConnectionsTelevision editFrom 1990 to 2005 Scientific American produced a television program on PBS called Scientific American Frontiers with hosts Woodie Flowers 39 and Alan Alda 40 Books editMain article Scientific American Library nbsp SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT No 1100 January 30 1897 featuring Canet naval guns for the Greek ironcladsFrom 1983 to 1997 Scientific American has produced an encyclopedia set of volumes from their publishing division the Scientific American Library These books were not sold in retail stores but as a Book of the Month Club selection priced from 24 95 to 32 95 Topics covered dozens of areas of scientific knowledge and included in depth essays on The Animal Mind Atmosphere Climate and Change Beyond the Third Dimension Cosmic Clouds Cycles of Life Civilization and the Biosphere The Discovery of Subatomic Particles Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest Earthquakes and Geological Discovery Exploring Planetary Worlds Gravity s Fatal Attraction Fire Fossils and the History of Life From Quarks to the Cosmos A Guided Tour of the Living Cell Human Diversity Perception The Solar System Sun and Earth The Science of Words Linguistics The Science of Musical Sound The Second Law of Thermodynamics Stars Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science 41 Scientific American launched a publishing imprint in 2010 in partnership with Farrar Straus and Giroux 42 DiChristina Mariette 2017 Scientific American The Science Behind the Debates Special Collector s Edition Winter 2017 2018 Scientific American A collection of updated or adapted Scientific American articles and shorter pieces According to editor Andrea Gawrylewski The reader will quickly notice a common theme there really is no debate where the science is concerned Contributors include Seth Shostak Paul Offit Richard Dawkins and Harriet Hall 43 Scientific and political debate editIn April 1950 the U S Atomic Energy Commission ordered Scientific American to cease publication of an issue containing an article by Hans Bethe that appeared to reveal classified information about the thermonuclear hydrogen bomb Subsequent review of the material determined that the AEC had overreacted The incident was important for the new Scientific American s history as the AEC s decision to burn 3 000 copies of an early press run of the magazine containing the offending material appeared to be book burning in a free society when publisher Gerard Piel leaked the incident to the press 44 In the October 2020 issue of the magazine it endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election citing Donald Trump s rejection of scientific evidence especially during the COVID 19 pandemic in the United States 45 46 In the column reporting the endorsement the magazine s editors said Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175 year history This year we are compelled to do so We do not do this lightly 47 Awards edit2010 IQ Award for the German edition Spektrum der WissenschaftSee also edit nbsp Science portal nbsp Books portal14145 Sciam asteroid named after Scientific American American Scientist Discover magazine Albert Graham Ingalls former editor and author of an amateur astronomy column New Scientist Scientific American MindReferences edit Scientific American Inc 1862 Men of progress American inventors presented to the subscribers of the Scientific American Munn amp Co New York 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