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| NEWSLETTER - JULY 10 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on July 10. 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. |
| Quotations for Today |
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| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Owen Chamberlain, born on 10 July 1920 was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 with Emilio Segrè for their discovery of a previously postulated subatomic particle. This was the second particle of its ilk to be discovered and led directly to the discovery of many additional types of such particles. What was this particle he discovered? |
| Edward H. Lowe, born 10 Jul 1920, joined his father's company in Cassopolis, Mich., after leaving the Navy. The company sold industrial absorbents, including sawdust and an absorbent clay called Fuller's Earth. In 1947, Lowe suggested a new use for the clay to his neighbor. What was Howe's inventive new use? |
| Deaths |
| Johann Gottfried Galle (1812-1910) was a German astronomer who on 23 Sep 1846, was the first to observe a planet, whose existence had been predicted in the calculations of Leverrier. Leverrier had written to Galle asking him to search for the new planet at a predicted location. Can you name this planet? |
| On 10 Jul 1851, a French inventor died, who was also a physicist, painter, photographer and tax collector, most remembered for inventing a light-sensitive photographic process. Can you name this inventor? |
| Events |
| On 10 Jul of a certain year in the 1960's, Telstar 1, the first U.S. geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to relay TV and telephone signals between the United States and Europe, setting the stage for far easier access to information, with much greater speed than ever felt possible. It allowed voice and video to be beamed between two places. What was the year Telstar was launched? |
| On 10 Jul 1908, Kamerlingh Onnes liquefied a certain element at -269 deg-C. What is the name of this element? |
| 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 July 10 web page Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for July 9: Nikola Tesla; sewing machine; King C. Gillette; the decade including the year 1893; nobelium. |
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