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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 16 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 16. 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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| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Gabriel Lippman, born 16 Aug 1845, was a French physicist, who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for producing an advance concerning the application of a photographic plate. Lippmann was a giant of his day in classical physics research, especially in optics and electricity. What was this photographic development? | |
| Pierre Mechain, born 16 Aug 1744, was a French hydrographer, and astronomer at the naval map archives in Paris who, with Jean Delambre, measured the meridian arc from Dunkirk, France, to Barcelona (between 1792 and 1798). What was the significant about this measurement? | |
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| Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) was a British astronomer who in 1868 discovered and named a previously unknown element that he found in the Sun's atmosphere. He also applied the name chromosphere for the sun's outer layer. What element did he discover and name? | |
| Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) is known for his laboratory gas burner (which he turned over to his assistant to actually make), but that was incidental to his his main research interest. The burner flame was his tool for identifying new elements. What was his main use for the burner flame? | |
| Events | |
| On 16 Aug 1960, Captain Joseph W. Kittinger made the longest delayed parachute jump on record when he bailed out of a balloon dropped a record distance before opening his parachute over New Mexico. How many miles did he freefall? | |
| On 16 Aug 1829, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston from aboard ship to be exhibited to the Western world. Where did they come from? | |
| 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 16 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 15: the wave nature of electrons; archaeology; the first round-the-world solo flight; the decade including 1914; freight delivery; Hello! | |
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