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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 1 | |
| Have you noticed the "Survey" icon in the top navigation bar of the web site? Please, be kind enough to contribute anonymously to build general information about the readership of the site. Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 1. 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 | |
| Georg Charles von Hevesy, born 1 Aug 1885, was a Hungarian-Danish-Swedish chemist who earned him the 1943 Nobel Prize for work which greatly advanced understanding of the chemical nature of life processes. For example, using his technique, it was found that the phosphorus content in human blood falls after only 2 hours to a mere 2% of its initial value and gradually changes places with the phosphorus atoms of the tissues, organs and skeleton. He also discovered, with Dirk Coster, the element hafnium (1923). What was the Nobel prize-winning technique he developed? | |
| On 1 Aug 1818, the first professional woman astronomer in the United States was born in Nantucket, Mass. While pursuing an amateur interest, on 1 Oct 1847, she gained fame from the observation of a comet which she was first to report. She was also the first female member of the American Association of Arts and Scienes. Can you name this woman? | |
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| Richard Kuhn (1900-1967) was a German biochemist awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins. He had discovered (1933) a third carotene isomer which was called gamma-carotene. However, he did not receive the Nobel diploma and gold medal until 1949. Why was the 1938 award presented to Kuhn in 1949? | |
| A German inventor (1847-1919) went to New York in 1863 and worked in a cigar factory. From his patents on cigar rolling machines he subsequently invented, he early great sums of money. He devoted his wealth to designing and building theatres, showing his genius for acoustics. He was the grandfather of another famous man who carried his name as the II. That grandson made the name famous through musicals. Can you name these men? | |
| Events | |
| On 1 Aug 1793, the first definition was made for a new unit 1/10 000 000 of the northern quadrant of the Paris meridian (5 132 430 toises of Paris, from the north pole to the equator). The definition was made legal by the French National Assembly on 7 Apr 1795. What was the unit? | |
| On 1 Aug 1943, the groundbreaking ceremony for the first uranium 235 plant took place. (Uranium 235 was needed to build the A-bomb.) The uranium manufacturing facility cost $280,000,000 to build and was completed in the summer of 1944. Where was this plant built? | |
| The 1 Aug 1941 Parade magazine enthusiastic devoted three full pages to "...the Army's most intriguing new gadget." General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America couldn't have won World War II without it. What was was this "gadget" ? | |
| 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 1 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for July 31: ticks; vanadium; steam; none; thousands were issued before the Patent Office began to assign patent numbers. | |
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