The U.S. Started as a Nation of Tinkerers
Scientific American came out 170 years ago celebrating the individual tinkerer and wound up bearing witness to major technological upheaveals in the nation and the world
Stories by Daniel J. Kevles
Meddling with Human Nature
The political outcomes of biotechnology
Robert A. Millikan
A tireless investigator and a Nobel prize winner at a time when not many Americans were, he had a penchant for controversy in subjects ranging from cosmic rays (which he named) to the support of science