Forrest Mims

Why Is Forrest Mims Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Forrest M. Mims III is an American amateur scientist, 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 , and a Development Engineer at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory .

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Forrest Mims's Published Works

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Published Works

Design, calibration, and performance of MICROTOPS II handheld ozone monitor and Sun photometer (2001) (408)
Cumulus clouds and UV-B (1994) (131)
Plants and UV-B (1997) (125)
Smartphone Spectrometers (2018) (96)
Fungal spores are transported long distances in smoke from biomass fires (2004) (85)
Development of an inexpensive handheld LED‐based Sun photometer for the GLOBE program (2001) (84)
Sun photometer with light-emitting diodes as spectrally selective detectors (1992) (79)
Fluctuations in column ozone during the total solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 (1993) (44)
Amateur Science--Strong Tradition, Bright Future (1999) (33)
An inexpensive and stable LED Sun photometer for measuring the water vapor column over South Texas from 1990 to 2001 (2002) (29)
An International Haze-Monitoring Network for Students. (1999) (28)
Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era (1986) (20)
Design, calibration and performance of MICROTOPS II hand-held ozonometer (1998) (20)
Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i (2020) (19)
Measuring Total Column Water Vapor by Pointing an Infrared Thermometer at the Sky (2011) (17)
Inexpensive Near-IR Sun Photometer for Measuring Total Column Water Vapor (2007) (15)
Significant reduction of UVB caused by smoke from biomass burning in Brazil. (1996) (13)
Getting Started in Electronics (2003) (12)
Alexander Graham Bell and the Photophone: The Centennial of the Invention of Light-Wave Communications, 1880–1980 (1980) (12)
Solar corona caused by juniper pollen in Texas. (1998) (11)
The PiSpec: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed Spectrometer for Measuring Volcanic SO2 Emission Rates (2019) (10)
Increased solar ultraviolet-B associated with record low ozone over Texas (1995) (10)
Smoky skies, mosquitoes, and disease. (1997) (10)
A 5-Year Study of a New Kind of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensor¶,* (2003) (10)
Aircraft contrails reduce solar irradiance (1997) (9)
Avian Influenza and UV-B Blocked by Biomass Smoke (2005) (8)
Satellite ozone monitoring error (1993) (7)
Solar Radiometer With Light-Emitting Diodes As Spectrally-Selective Detectors (2000) (7)
Light-Emitting Diodes (2019) (4)
Project Halo: The annular solar eclipse of 1994 (1993) (4)
THE MY NASA DATA PROJECT (2006) (4)
EDUCATION: The MY NASA DATA Project (2008) (4)
Unusually low ozone detected over south‐central U.S. (1995) (4)
Beware of laser eavesdropping (1987) (3)
UV Radiation and Field Experiments (1996) (3)
Health effects of tropical smoke (1997) (3)
Semiconductor Diode Lasers (1972) (2)
Sensory Aids for Blind Persons (1973) (2)
Creationism and science: An impossible union? (1994) (2)
LED Sun Photometry (2009) (2)
Understanding digital computers (1987) (2)
Engineer's notebook: a handbook of integrated cirucuit applications (2016) (2)
Solar aureoles caused by dust, smoke, and haze. (2003) (2)
Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory: Fifty Years of Monitoring the Atmosphere (2011) (1)
Letter to the editor. (1992) (1)
Some you win, some you lose (1993) (1)
Smoke and Rainforests (1995) (1)
A 5‐Year Study of a New Kind of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensor ¶ * (2003) (1)
No Apocalypse Now (1994) (1)
Engineer's Notebook (1986) (1)
Save the amber (1993) (1)
Surreptitious interception of conversations with lasers (1985) (1)
Correction to “Development of an inexpensive handheld LED‐based Sun photometer for the GLOBE program” by David R. Brooks and Forrest M. Mims III (2001) (1)
Amber Trees (1992) (0)
Publisher Correction: Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i (2021) (0)
Consider the amateur. (1996) (0)
The Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbook (1982) (0)
Science Notebook: A Simple Seismometer. (1991) (0)
MIMS circuit scrapbook V.I. (1982) (0)
Ups and Downs of UV-B (1998) (0)
Amber trees. (1992) (0)
Random walking (2004) (0)
A bright future for fiber optic communications: New developments in fiber optic technology are transforming lightwave communications into one of the fastest growing areas of electronics (1984) (0)
Forrest Mims' Computer Projects (1985) (0)
Science Experimenter: Experimenting with a Geiger Counter. (1992) (0)
UV-B and Ozone Observations (1994) (0)
Water Storage: Atmospheric (2020) (0)
Comment on amt-2021-58 (2021) (0)
Comment on amt-2021-58 (2021) (0)
A 30-year climatology (1990-2020) of aerosol optical depth and total column water vapor and ozone over Texas (2021) (0)
Science Notebook: Green Vegetation Sensor. (1991) (0)
Significant differences in instruments raises important questions that have not been addessed (2018) (0)
Science Experimenter: How to Measure the Solar Constant. (1991) (0)
Airborne Particulate Matter (1998) (0)
Aerosol Optical Thickness Measurements of the Skies of San Marcos and Seguin, Texas from 2003-2004 (2005) (0)
Women in Science (1992) (0)
Science versus anti-science (1994) (0)
Sagan's Scenario (1992) (0)
Physics Departments Should Emphasize Experiments (1996) (0)
The Science that Happens through Partnerships (1997) (0)
Compulsory read? (1993) (0)
Science Experimenter: Reflectance Spectroscopy. (1991) (0)
Solar UV-B measured at the surface and inferred by satellite at a rural Texas site, 1994-2001 (2002) (0)
Validation of remote-sensing satellites using simple ground-based instruments (2002) (0)
Consider the Amateur (1996) (0)
Lasers: The incredible light machines (1977) (0)
In defence of radioactive journals (1992) (0)
Science Experimenter: Observing the Sun and Solar Eclipses. (1991) (0)

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