14 TRANSITIONING INTO SCIENCE
My tenure as writer of The Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American was brief. Only three of my columns were published, and Wikipedia explains what happened next: “Although the [Mims] incident did not diminish Scientific American’s commitment to the column, it did make the editors reluctant to offer the column to another amateur scientist. The magazine invited a number of potential columnists to submit articles, some of which it published. But Scientific American was unable to find anyone with both professional credentials and the breadth of scientific interests necessary to recapture the popularity the column enjoyed under Stong and Ingalls. Without a regular columnist, the department languished, appearing ...
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