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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 27 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 27. 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 |
| "Although I am primarily an experimental physicist, theoretical physics is my hobby." - Norman Foster Ramsey (born 27 Aug 1915) "(The Oppau fertilizer factory explosion that killed over 500 people) was caused neither by carelessness nor human failure. Unknown natural factors that we are still unable to explain today have made a mockery of all our efforts. The very substance intended to provide food and life to millions of our countrymen and which we have produced and supplied for years has suddenly become a cruel enemy for reasons we are as yet unable to fathom. It has reduced our site to rubble." - Carl Bosch (born 27 Aug 1874) "I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true." - Ernest Orlando Lawrence (died 27 Aug 1958) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Carl Bosch, born 27 Aug 1874 was a German industrial chemist who developed the Haber-Bosch process for an important high-pressure synthesis. He was awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. What is the product of the Haber-Bosch process? |
| Deaths |
| Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) was an American physicist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the first particle accelerator to achieve high energies. What was this first high energy particle accelerator called? |
| Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) was an English educator and inventor who originated the modern postal service. He introduced first adhesive postage stamp in 1840. What was the price of the first stamp? |
| Events |
| On 27 Aug 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe Which planet was mission of this probe? |
| On 27 Aug 1859, Colonel Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States. The drilling had reached 69 feet, 6 inches when a dark film floating on the water below the derrick floor was noticed. In which state was this oil well drilled? |
| 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 27 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 26: Polio; Montgolfier; Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; Charles Lindbergh; Antony van Leeuwenhoek; Niagara Falls; Krakatau. |
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