Scientific American
 Sampul bulan Maret 2005 | |
| Kategori | Sains populer |
|---|---|
| Frekuensi | Bulanan |
| Total sirkulasi (2012) | 476,867[1] |
| Terbitan pertama | 28 Agustus 1845 |
| Perusahaan | Nature Publishing Group |
| Negara | Amerika Serikat |
| Bahasa | Inggris |
| Situs web | scientificamerican.com |
| ISSN | 0036-8733 |
Scientific American (singkatan informal: SciAm) adalah sebuah majalah sains populer. Majalah ini terkenal karena sering menampilkan informasi ilmiah setiap bulan kepada masyarakat umum melalui perhatian yang besar terhadap kejelasan teksnya, serta kualitas grafis warna istimewanya. Banyak ilmuwan ternama seperti Albert Einstein menyumbang artikel ke majalah ini selama 167 tahun sejarahnya. Scientific American adalah majalah bulanan tertua yang masih terbit di Amerika Serikat.
Editor[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Rufus M. Porter (1792–1884), pertama
- Orson Desaix Munn I, ketiga[2]
- Dennis Flanagan (1919–2005) menjadi editor sejak tahun 1947.[3]
- Jonathan Piel, Juni 1984 sampai Agustus 1994
- John Rennie, kepala editor ketujuh, 1994–2009
- Mariette DiChristina, kepala editor kedelapan, ditunjuk Desember 2009
Lihat pula[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Albert Graham Ingalls, mantan editor dan penulis kolom astronomi amatir
- Amos Root
- New Scientist
- Scientific American Mind
- Discover (majalah)
- American Scientist
- 14145 Sciam, asteroid yang diberi nama setelah Scientific American
Referensi[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Spesifik
- ^ ABC
- ^ "A Century of Progress". Time. January 1, 1945. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-12-05. Diakses tanggal 2008-07-15.
Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society.
- ^ Santora, Marc (January 17, 2005). "Dennis Flanagan, 85, Editor of Scientific American for 37 Years". New York Times. Diakses tanggal 2008-04-01.
Dennis Flanagan, who as editor of Scientific American magazine helped foster science writing for the general reader, died at his home in Manhattan on Friday. He was 85. The cause of death was prostate cancer, according to his wife, Barbara Williams Flanagan. Mr. Flanagan, who worked at Scientific American for more than three decades beginning in 1947, teamed editors directly with working scientists, publishing pieces by leading figures like Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- Umum
- Lewenstein, Bruce V. "Magazine Publishing and Popular Science After World War II". American Journalism. 1989. 6 (4): 218–34.
Pranala luar[sunting | sunting sumber]
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- Online edition of Scientific American with partially free access to the current issue
- Saluran Scientific American di YouTube
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- Online archive (not free) of the issues from 1993 to the present
- Online archive of the issues before 1930, with indices
- Online archive of Scientific American between 1846 and 1869, from Cornell University
- Online archive of the covers of more than a thousand issues from circa 1872 to 1931