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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 31 |
| 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. |
| Quotations for Today |
| "When built, the telescope had only been expected to have an operational life of some 10 years. I am delighted that 45 years later, not only is it still in daily use but is capable of a far wider range of observations. It is a truly magnificent achievement." - Sir Bernard Lovell (born 31 Aug 1913), about the telescope at the institution in the quiz below. "Any pride I might have felt in my conclusions was perceptily lessened by the fact that I knew that the solution of these problems had almost always come to me as the gradual generalization of favorable examples, by a series of fortunate conjectures, after many errors." - Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (born 31 Aug 1821) "(The unreactivity of the noble gas elements) belongs to the surest of experimental results." - Friedrich Adolf Paneth (born 31 Aug 1887) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Sir Bernard Lovell, born 31 Aug 1913 is an English radio astronomer who was founder and director (1951-81) of a well-known England astronomical institution. What institution did he found? |
| Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, born 31 Aug 1821, was a German scientist who made fundamental contributions to physiology, optics, electrodynamics, mathematics, and meteorology. He is best known for his statement of one of the fundamental laws of physics. What is this fundamental law? |
| Guillaume Amontons, born 31 Aug 1663, was a French physicist, who developed the air thermometer - which relies on increase in volume of a gas (rather than a liquid) with temperature - and used it (1702) to measure change in temperature in terms of a proportional change in pressure. He had a disability since childhood, which led him to work on inventions for people with this same disability. What was this disability? |
| Deaths |
| Sir John Bennet Lawes (1814-1900) was an English agronomist who founded Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. He also founded an industry. What was the industry he founded? |
| Events |
| On 31 Aug 1971, Dave Scott became the first person to drive a car where no person had driven a car before. Where did he drive this vehicle? |
| 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 31 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 30: NOAA; ENIAC; Sir Ernest Rutherford; electron; sun. |
| Feedback |
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