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Scientific American Incorporated, founded in 1845 and based in New York, is known for its 'Scientific American' magazine, the oldest U.S. periodical published without interruption. The company also publishes 'Scientific American Mind Magazine.' Approximately 1 million copies of the 'Scientific American' are sold worldwide. Four million people read the magazine. 'Scientific American' is available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and nine other language editions. More than 120 Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, and Linus Pauling, have contributed articles to the periodical. Scientific American Incorporated's SciAm.com website, launched in 1996, includes news stories, podcasts, and blogs. Articles are organized into technology, space and physics, health, mind, nature, biology, and archaeology and paleontology subject areas. 'Scientific American' was launched by Rufus Porter and later sold to Orson Desaix Munn and Alfred Ely Beach. Munn & Company owned the publication for approximately 100 years. In 1850, the company founded the first branch of the U.S. Patent Agency. In 1859, it helped launch a second patent office in Washington, D.C. Scientific American Incorporated is a Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH company.
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