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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 3 |
| 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 |
| "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—power." Matthew Boulton (born 3 Sep 1728) said to James Boswell on his engineering works. "A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." - Dixy Lee Ray (born 3 Sep 1914) "It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses." - Barbara McClintock (died 3 Sep 1992) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Carl David Anderson, born 3 Sep 1905, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of a new atomic particle. He examined the photographs of cosmic rays taken as they passed through a Wilson cloud chamber in a strong magnetic field. What was this particle? |
| Deaths |
| Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was an American scientist regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of genetics. In the 1940s and 1950s McClintock's work on cytogenetics led her to theorize that genes are transposable - they can move around - on and between chromosomes. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983, the first American woman to win an unshared Nobel. What plant was the subject of this research? |
| Events |
| On 3 Sep 2000, NASA data showed the Antarctic ozone hole at just under 11 million square miles - the biggest it had ever been. Record-low temperatures in the stratosphere are believed to have helped the expansion of the ozone hole during the Antarctic spring season. By 9 Sep 2000, the hole had grown over another country. What was the other country? |
| On 3 Sep 1996, Slowinski and Gage discovered the number 2^1257787-1, the 34th of its kind. What was special about this number? |
| 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 September 3 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for September 2: teacher; isotopes; ...to the pressure of the gas above the liquid, provided that no chemical action occurs; Titanic; 14 September. |
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