Make: Maverick Scientist

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would have been impossible without the enthusiastic support of Dale Dougherty and his superb staff at Make: Community. Kevin Toyama and Mark Nichol carefully edited and fact checked the book and inserted its many references. The pages and illustrations were then expertly arranged by Juliann Brown, who has laid out my columns in Make magazine for more than a decade.

Prolific writer John Ash McCormick, who has written twenty-three books and thousands of articles, arranged for me to address the National Press Club about the Scientific American affair in 1990. When I sent John the first draft of the book, he kindly offered many helpful suggestions, as did his wife, Beth Goldie, a former employee of the Central Intelligence ...