 | TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 12 APRIL |
| Feature for Today |
| Book of the Day | |
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| Quotations for Today | |
 | "The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations." |
 | "I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world." |
 | "Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly." |
| QUIZ | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. | |
| Births | |
 |  Peter Safar, born 12 Apr 1924, was an Austrian-American physician whose pioneering procedure of mouth-to-mouth resuscitations is credited with saving countless lives. In the 1960s the technique was combined with new chest compressions, producing what's known today as CPR, or cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.  What nickname was given to the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation procedure? |
| Deaths | |
 |  George Wald (1906-1997) was an American biochemist who received a share of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for his work on the chemistry of vision. While researching the biochemistry of vision at Harvard University, he disclosed the presence of a certain vitamin in the retina of the eye. Which vitamin did Wald find in the retina? |
| Events | |
 |  On 12 Apr 1981, the first shuttle was launched into space, to become the first of NASA's series of reusable spacecraft. What was the name of this first shuttle into space? |
 | On 12 Apr 1961, a Russian became the first man to orbit the Earth in a capsule called Vostok 1. What was the name of the first cosmonaut to orbit the Earth? |
 | On 12 Apr 1898, Marie Curie observed a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, where one of her teachers, Prof. Gabriel Lippmann announced her discovery of a substance much more radioactive than uranium.Which element had Curie discovered was more active than uranium? |
| Answers |
When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the April 12 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. Fast answers for the previous newsletter for April 11: James Parkinson; Sony; ten; CSM (Command/Service Module) spacecraft name: Odyssey; Mission name: Apollo 13; the decade including the year 1900. |
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