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Carlson left academia in 1994 and founded the Society for Amateur Scientists. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] He contributed to the columns "Science on Society" on The Humanist from 1990-1992, [ citation needed ] " The Amateur Scientist " in Scientific American from 1995 to 2001, [ 2 ] and "The Citizen Scientist" for Make magazine from 2005 to 2007. [ 6 ]
The Society for Amateur Scientists was the brainchild of Shawn Carlson, Ph.D., a physicist from the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Particle Astrophysics. Inspired by the example of his grandfather, a gifted amateur scientist named George Donald Graham, Carlson founded SAS in San Diego, California on January 1, 1994
Its executive director, Shawn Carlson, Ph.D., was a physicist and established science writer who had left academe a year earlier to devote his career to advancing amateur science. Dr. Carlson took over the column in November of that year and immediately returned its focus to cutting-edge science projects that amateurs can do inexpensively at home.
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