Including Washington, Jefferson, Kennedy and more
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Popular Science has seen 28 presidents (Grover Cleveland twice) since its founding in 1872. Though the magazine tries to stay out of politics, there were two presidents whose contributions to science earned them our special admiration: inventor Thomas Jefferson and space-age champion John F. Kennedy.
Other commanders-in-chief, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, have also appeared in PopSci, but for less illustrious reasons (in 1929, we centered a whole article around Charles Hotz, a waiter who happened to look exactly like Calvin Coolidge.) Here is a gallery of our presidential coverage, from 1927 to 1989.
See the gallery.
This article originally appeared on PopularScience.com September 7, 2012.
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Obama lacks math and science skills and will never make this list!
Do you realize how moronic your comment makes you seem? To actually think you know anyone else's skill in anything is completely ridiculous.
"Though the magazine tries to stay out of politics"
BWAH-HAH! Yeah, well, except for pushing the thinly-veiled Socialism known as "global warming", a platform of the Democratic Party.
And then we have:
"FYI: Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?"
But remember, folks, PopSci tries to stay out of politics.
I agree that PopSci has failed in its efforts to keep politics out. Honestly, I've had enough of seeing articles about some senator who said something contrary to science. I am not interested in what goes on in American politics.