Dennis Flanagan

In 1947, Flanagan, a former editor of Life magazine, and two friends bought the magazine Scientific American, which at the time had a circulation of 40,000. As its new editor, he made a few changes. First, he dictated that the people doing research should be the primary authors of articles in the magazine, and second, the published articles should be readable by people other than scientists. He recruited scientists like James D. Watson, Hans Bethe, Linus Pauling, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein to write articles, and then edited them so they were readable by a lay audience, and ran book reviews. He hired Martin Gardner to create fun but interesting puzzles. "He had a tremendous influence on science journalism," says Leon Jaroff, former science editor at Time magazine. "Before, much of science journalism was largely incomprehensible to the layperson." By the time he retired in 1984, circulation was up to 600,000, exceeding many popular general interest magazines. He died at home an January 11 from prostate cancer. He was 85. From This is True for 16 January 2005 Suggestions for further reading: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Amazon Price: Customer Review: This anthology always lives up to its hyped title as the "best" as Gardner Dozois does his usual yeoman's job of selecting from print and the net a strong collection; this time thirty-two short stories (631 pages of contributions). The Summation of ...   The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll Amazon Price: $19.77 Customer Review: I was looking for book of Alice in wonderland that included the original drawings, This does and make for an interesting read with the notes on each pages.   My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles) by Martin Gardner Amazon Price: $4.95 Customer Review: This is a must bring when you go on vacation and just need some time to chill at the beach or at the end of a busy day, in between day and evening plans. If you happen to be interviewing in the technical fields you may run across interviewers that as...   Literature: A Portable Anthology by Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl, Peter Schakel Amazon Price: $28.70 Customer Review: i was required to purchase this for my classes at brevard community college although i actually enjoyed some of the short stories in it   Step by Step to College and Career Success by John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot Amazon Price: $31.85   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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