FORREST MIMS
Forrest Mims is the most widely
read electronics author in the world. His sixty
books have sold over 7,500,000 copies and have
twice been honored for excellence by the Computer
Press Association. His "Engineer's Notebook"
series of books for RadioShack is entirely hand-lettered
and hand-illustrated to re-create the look of
Forrest's own laboratory notebooks. His work has
appeared in some 70 magazines and science journals,
including Nature, Scientific American, Science,
Popular Photography, New Scientist, Sky &
Telescope, Popular Mechanics, Physics Today, Electronics,
PC Magazine, and IEEE Spectrum.
In 1993, he was named a Laureate
in the Rolex Awards for Enterprise competition
for his efforts in establishing a global ozone
measuring network that used instruments of his
own design. |
