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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 10 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 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. | |
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| Births | |
| Arne Tiselius, born 10 Aug 1902, was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1948 for his work on electrophoresis and other new methods of separating and detecting colloids and serum proteins. Using the technique on blood serum Tiselius confirmed the existence of four different groups of proteins - albumins and alpha, beta, and gamma globulins. What is electropheresis? | |
| Charles Darrow, born 10 Aug 1889, inveted a classic board game. Can you name this game? | |
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| A physicist (1882-1945) became known as the father of modern American rocketry. Can you name this pioneer? | |
| Events | |
| On 10 Aug 1846, an Act of Congress signed by President James K. Polk established a trust to administer the generous bequest of James Smithson, an amount over $500,000. In 1826, James Smithson, a British scientist, drew up his last will and testament, naming his nephew as beneficiary. He stipulated that, should the nephew die without heirs (as he would in 1835), the estate should go "to the United States of America, to found ... an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." What name did he specify for this scientific establishment, by which it is known today? | |
| On 10 Aug of a certain year, King Charles II laid the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England. In what century did this take place? | |
| 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 August 10 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for August 9: Swiss; Count Amedeo Avogadro; Sir Edward Frankland; Alabama; Nagasaki. | |
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