Forrest M. Mims III is an American amateur scientist,[2] magazine columnist, and author of Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that were originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores and are still in print. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, served in Vietnam as an Air Force intelligence officer (1967), and a Development Engineer at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory (1968–70).
Mims has no formal academic training in science,[2] but still went on to have a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist. His series of hand-lettered and illustrated electronics books sold over 7.5 million copies and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most prolific citizen scientists.[3] Mims does scientific studies in many fields using instruments he designs and makes and his scientific papers have been published in many peer-reviewed journals, often with professional scientists as co-authors. Much of his research deals with ecology, atmospheric science and environmental science. A simple instrument he developed to measure the ozone layer earned him a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1993. In December 2008, Discover named Mims one of the "50 Best Brains in Science."[4]
Mims edited The Citizen Scientist — the journal of the Society for Amateur Scientists — from 2003 to 2010. He also served as Chairman of the Environmental Science Section of the Texas Academy of Science. For 17 years he taught a short course on electronics and atmospheric science at the University of the Nations, an unaccredited Christian university in Hawaii.[5] He is a Life Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Mims is a Fellow of the pseudoscientific organizations International Society for Complexity, Information and Design and Discovery Institute which propagate creationism.[6][7] He is also a global warming denier.[8][9]
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^Powell, Corey S. (December 2008). "The 50 Most Important, Influential, and Promising People in Science". Discover Magazine. p. 46.
^"Watchmen for the World" (PDF). Transformations. 3. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
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^"Forrest M. Mims, Fellow — Center for Science and Culture". Discovery Institute. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
^ "Temperature doesn’t affect global warming" Forrest Mims, Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, September 1, 1999. Publications, ForrestMims.org
^"Questions and Answers About Climate Change". Archived from the original on February 4, 2011. Retrieved 2006-12-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Forrest M. Mims III. Citizen Scientist, Society for Amateur Scientists, March 11, 2005
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