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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 1 |
| 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 |
| "Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this (atomic) energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of science fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable any by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star." - Francis William Aston (born 1 Sep 1877) from Nobel Lecture, 12 Dec 1922. "There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to an opinion as Fermi." - Luis W. Alvarez (died 1 Sep 1988) "Bearing in mind that it is from the vitality of the atmospheric particles that all the mischief arises, it appears that all that is requisite is to dress the wound with some material capable of killing these sceptic germs, provided that any substance can be found reliable for this purpose, yet not so potent as a caustic. In the course of the year 1864, I was much struck with an account of the remarkable effects produced by carbolic acid upon the sewage of the town of Carlisle, the admixture of a very small proportion not only preventing all the odour from the lands irrigated with the refuse material, but as it was stated, destroying the entozoa which usually infest cattle fed upon such a pasture." - Joseph Lister, who performed the first antiseptic surgery on 1 Sep 1865. |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Karl August Folkers, born 1 Sep 1906 was a U.S. chemist whose research on vitamins resulted in the isolation of vitamin B12, the only effective agent known in countering a certain medical problem. What is this medical problem? |
| Francis William Aston, born 1 Sep 1877, was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922 for his development of the mass spectrograph. What does the mass spectrograph do? |
| Alfred Ely Beach, born 1 Sep 1826, was an American inventor and publisher, whose Scientific American helped stimulate 19th-century technological innovations and became one of the world's most prestigious science magazines. Beach himself invented a tunneling shield and built a subway (1870) What powered his subway carriages? |
| Deaths |
| Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work that included the discovery of many resonance particles. What are resonance particles? |
| Events |
| On 1 Sep 1914, the Ectopistes migratorius became extinct as the last surviving bird of the native American species died at the Cincinnati Zoo. In the wild, it had been hunted to extinction; the fact that it traveled and nested in large flocks made it easy to slaughter. What is the common name of this often-quoted example of an extinct species? |
| 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 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 August 31: Jodrell Bank Experimental Station; law of the conservation of energy; inventions for the deaf; artificial fertilizer industry; moon. |
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