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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 8 |
| 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 |
| (About conveyance of cholera through drinking water) "...there is often a way open for it to extend itself more widely, and to reach the well-to-do classes of the community; I allude to the mixture of cholera evacuations with the water used for drinking and culinary purposes, either by permeating the ground, and getting into wells, or by running along channels and sewers into the rivers from which entire towns are sometimes supplied with water." - Dr. John Snow (born 15 Mar 1813) - writing in 1849, five years before his dramatic proof of this transmission mode when, on 8 Sep 1854, he removed the Broad Street water pump handle and halted a severe outbreak of cholera in London. (source) "I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science." - Sir Derek H.R. Barton, British Nobel prize-winning chemist (born 9 Sep 1918) "Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect." - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist (died 8 Sep 1894) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Raphael W. Pumpelly, born 8 Sep 1837, was an American geologist and scientific explorer known for his studies and explorations of ore deposits for which he used microscopes and thin sections for petrographic study. What metal did he advise investors to search for instead of gold? |
| Marin Mersenne, born 8 Sep 1588, was a French mathematician, natural philosopher, and theologian whose discovery of the Mersenne numbers is considered to have been a pioneering effort to derive a formula that would represent all prime numbers. What formula is the form of Mersenne numbers? |
| Deaths |
| Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) was an American chemist who developed a tool of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and earth scientists for which he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960. What is the process he developed? |
| Events |
| On 8 Sep of a certain year, an early report in the Journal of the American Medical Association held that there is statistical evidence connecting smoking and heart disease. What was the decade of this event? |
| 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 8 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 7: James Alfred Van Allen; chemistry; photosynthesis; decade of 1888. |
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