肖恩-卡尔森 科学教育家

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Shawn Carlson
Science Educator | Class of 1999
Title
Science Educator
Location
Aurora, Illinois
Age
39 at time of award
Area of Focus
STEM Education and Communication
Published July 1, 1999
ABOUT SHAWN'S WORK
Shawn Carlson is a physicist and an educator who works to make the scientific process less mystifying and more comprehensible to nonscientists.

Through his dissemination of inexpensive experiments, many designed by Carlson himself, he demonstrates that scientific research is a quest to understand natural phenomena in which everyone can participate. He gained early attention with a controlled scientific study of astrological predictions. The resulting manuscript, published in Nature, found that astrological charts do not outperform random guesses in predicting personality characteristics. In 1994, Carlson founded the Society for Amateur Scientists, which identifies opportunities for curious amateurs to investigate important, but as yet unsolved, scientific questions and to provide a forum for the organization of amateur research projects. As author of the “Amateur Scientist” column for the Scientific American, Carlson features innovative and inexpensive designs for equipment and experiments that amateurs can use to explore current research questions.

BIOGRAPHY
Carlson is the executive director of the Society for Amateur Scientists and an adjunct professor in physics at San Diego State University. He has authored and edited a number of CD-ROMs that explore core concepts in physics and problem-solving techniques.

Shawn Carlson received a B.S. (1981) in applied mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. (1989) in nuclear physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

RECENT NEWS
Carlson is currently based in San Diego and is the executive director of Engagement Education, through which he leads the LabRats Science Education Program. He has authored and edited several books on core STEM concepts and problem-solving techniques.





Updated May 2020



肖恩-卡尔森
科学教育家 | 1999级
职称
科学教育家
工作地点
伊利诺伊州奥罗拉市
年龄
获奖时39岁
重点领域
STEM教育和交流
发表于1999年7月1日
关于肖恩的工作
肖恩-卡尔森是一位物理学家和教育家，他致力于使科学过程不再神秘，让非科学家更容易理解。

通过传播廉价的实验（其中许多是卡尔森自己设计的），他证明了科学研究是对自然现象的探索，每个人都可以参与其中。他通过对占星术预测的控制性科学研究获得了早期关注。由此产生的手稿发表在《自然》杂志上，发现占星图在预测人格特征方面并不优于随机猜测的结果。1994年，卡尔森成立了业余科学家协会，该协会为好奇的业余爱好者寻找机会，调查重要但尚未解决的科学问题，并为组织业余研究项目提供一个论坛。作为《科学美国人》杂志 "业余科学家 "专栏的作者，卡尔森以创新和廉价的设备和实验设计为特色，让业余爱好者可以用来探索当前的研究问题。

个人简历
卡尔森是业余科学家协会的执行董事，也是圣地亚哥州立大学物理学的兼职教授。他撰写和编辑了一些探索物理学核心概念和解决问题技巧的光盘。

肖恩-卡尔森在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校获得应用数学学士学位（1981年），并在加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校获得核物理学博士学位（1989年）。

最近的新闻
卡尔森目前在圣地亚哥工作，是 "参与教育 "的执行董事，他通过该机构领导LabRats科学教育项目。他撰写和编辑了几本关于STEM核心概念和解决问题的技巧的书籍。





2020年5月更新