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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 30 |
| 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 |
| "There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water." - Sylvia A. Earle (born 30 Aug 1935) "It is not the nature of things for any one man to make a sudden, violent discovery; science goes step by step and every man depends on the work of his predecessors. When you hear of a sudden unexpected discovery - a bolt from the blue - you can always be sure that it has grown up by the influence of one man or another, and it is the mutual influence which makes the enormous possibility of scientific advance. Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem and each doing his little bit to add to the great structure of knowledge which is gradually being erected." - physicist in quiz below (born 30 Aug 1871) More of his quotes. "This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement and development of the older methods -- the research in pure science has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact, research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side. - J. J. Thomson (died 30 Aug 1940) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Sylvia A. Earle, born 30 Aug 1935 is an American oceanographer who is a devout advocate of public education regarding the importance of the oceans as an essential environmental habitat. In 1990, Earle was named the first woman to serve as chief scientist of the U.S. federal agency that conducts underwater research, manages fisheries, and monitors marine spills. What are the initials of this agency? |
| John W. Mauchly, born 30 Aug 1907, was an American physicist and engineer, coinventor in 1946, with John P. Eckert, of the first general-purpose electronic computer. What are the initials (or acronym) of this computer's name? |
| A British physicist was born 30 Aug 1871 who laid the groundwork for the development of nuclear physics (with his alpha-particle scattering experiment). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908. What is this man's name? |
| Deaths |
| Sir J(oseph) J(ohn) Thomson (1856-1940) was the English physicist who helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure with his discovery an atomic particle in 1897. What was the particle he discovered? |
| Events |
| On 30 Aug 1979, the first recorded occurrance of a comet hitting a certain body in our Solar System occurred (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs). What body was struck by the comet? |
| 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 30 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 29: electric starter; Monopoly; Mt; circumnavigation of the world's polar axis; decade of 1965. |
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