American Engineer and Writer 1928-1997 Engineer, author, visionary, and hobbyist extraordinaire, G. Harry Stine is best known as the father of model rocketry for his efforts to bring science and safety to the building and launching of model rockets....

G. Harry Stine (March 26, 1928 - November 2, 1997) is widely regarded as the father of model rocketry. Although he did not invent the hobby – that distinction goes to Orville Carlisle – he popularized it and made it into an...

Best-selling horror author loses the limelight to a sorcerer's apprentice? Now that's scary. R.L. Stine, who makes his living giving children the heebie-jeebies and was probably responsible for a jump in night-light sales, sold more than 300 million copies of his "Goosebumps"...

IN STUDYING MATTER, scientists do many things. They measure weights and dimensions. They heat substances or cool them, shine light on them (or through them), stretch them, or squeeze them. Harry Drickamer was a master at squeezing matter to tease scientific information from nature....