Charles Allen Munn (1859–1924) was an American editor and publisher who oversaw ''

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it, with more than 150 Nobel Pri ...

'' after the editorship of his father, Orson Desaix Munn. His nephew

Orson Desaix Munn II Orson Desaix Munn II (1883–1958) was an editor and publisher of ''Scientific American'' magazine. He was the son of Henry Norcross Munn (1851-1905) and his wife Annie E. Elder (1855-1917), the nephew of Charles Allen Munn, and the grandson ...

succeeded him as editor of the magazine. He was also a patron of the arts, and after his death bequeathed his collection of early American paintings, prints, and silver to the

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