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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 28 |
| 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 |
| "Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life." - Roger Tory Peterson (born 28 Aug 1908) "It seems reasonable to assume that as long as anxiety and insecurity persist as a root of intolerance, the effort to dispel stereotyped thinking or feelings of ethnic hostility by rational propaganda is at best a half-measure." - Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist (born 28 Aug 1903) "Organized Fossils are to the naturalist as coins to the antiquary; they are the antiquities of the earth; and very distinctly show its gradual regular formation, with the various changes of inhabitants in the watery element." - William Smith, geologist (died 28 Aug 1839) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, born 28 Aug 1919, was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for developing CAT, a high-resolution x-ray picture of an imaginary slice through the body (or head) is built up from information taken from detectors rotating around the patient. CAT is an acronym; what is its name in full? |
| Roger Tory Peterson, born 28 Aug 1908, was an American author of field guides, and did much in the United States and Europe to stimulate public interest in his topic. What was his field of interest? |
| Deaths |
| Four geologists died on 28 Aug, each of a different era and in different parts of the world. William Bowie (1872-1940, geodesist who investigated isostasy); Sir T. W. Edgeworth David (1858-1934); Émile Haug (1861-1927, geologist known for his contributions to the theory of geosynclines); and William Smith (1769-1839, geologist who developed stratigraphy and also made a monumental study of a certain country). For each geologist, can you give their nationality or the country they studied? |
| Events |
| On 28 Aug 1963, the Evergreen Point road bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opened. What was the unusual construction type this bridge? |
| On 28 Aug 1845, the first issue came out in the U.S. of a science magazine that is still being published under the same name. The first publisher was Rufus Porter (1792-1884), a versatile if eccentric Yankee, who was by turns a portrait-painter, schoolmaster, inventor and editor. What is the name of this magazine? |
| On 28 Aug 1837, English pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins began the manufacture of a now world-famous condiment. What condiment? |
| 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 28 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 27: ammonia; cyclotron; one penny; Venus fly-by; Pennsylvania. |
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