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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 12 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 12. 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 | |
| On 12 Aug 1887, an Austrian theoretical physicist was born who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac. Can you name this man? | |
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| William B. Shockley (1910-1989) was an English-American engineer and teacher, cowinner (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for the development of an important improvement on another device, able to do the same function with much less bulk and more efficiency. What device did he invent? | |
| George Stephenson (1781-1848) was an English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. In the Rainhill trials of 1829, there was a competition as to who could build the fastest locomotive. He won with his locomotive which traveled at an unheard of speed of 36 miles per hour. What was the name of his winning locomotive? | |
| Events | |
| In 1977, the Enterprise, the prototype for the space shuttle, made its first flight on its own within Earth's atmosphere after being launched from a Boeing 747, separated, and then touched down in California's Mojave Desert; the space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test. Where did the shuttle's name come from? | |
| In 1883, the quagga became extinct when the last mare at Amsterdam Zoo died. It was not immediately realised that she was the very last of her kind. Because of the confusion caused by the indiscriminate use of the term "Quagga" for similar animals, the true quagga had been hunted to extinction without this being realised until many years later. What animal did the quagga resemble? | |
| In 1865, after studying Louis Pasteur's germ theory of disease (that infections are caused by bacteria), a surgeon was the first use disinfectant during an operation. He introduced phenol (carbolic acid) as a form of disinfectant into his surgery; the higher standards of hygiene reduce the surgical death rate from 45% to 15%. He was the first medical person raised to the peerage. Can you name this surgeon? | |
| 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 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 August 11: cathode-ray tube; an attendant had been feeding his laboratory chickens with cooked white rice instead of whole rice, Eijkman discovered by accident that diet produced a disease resembling beriberi in human beings; Andrew Carnegie; Phobos and Deimos; S.O.S. | |
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