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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 16 | |
| 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. | |
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| Quotations for Today | |
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| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, born 16 Sep 1893, was Hungarian biochemist whose discoveries concerning the roles played by certain organic compounds in the oxidation of nutrients by the cell brought him the 1937 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Which organic compound in particular did he examine? | |
| On 16 Sep 1877, the inventor of the electric razor was born Can you name this inventor? | |
| Deaths | |
| The English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who died 16 Sept 1946, was the first to propose that matter is continuously created throughout the universe. Can you name this man? [Hint: he was featured here 5 days ago under "births"] | |
| A German physicist (1686-1736) who lived in Holland for most of his life was involved in the manufacture of meteorological instruments. In 1714, he created the first thermometer to use mercury instead of alcohol. He originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture. Can you name this scientist? [Of course you can. But what is his first name?] | |
| Events | |
| On 16 Sep 1835, aboard the ship HMS Beagle,British naturalist Charles Darwin arrived at a cluster of islands on the equator 600 miles west of South America. During his five weeks studying the fauna there, he found the giant tortoises there greatly differed from one another according to which island they came from. What islands were these? | |
| 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 16 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 15: quarks; shoe-lasting machine; Willy Messerschmitt; decade of the year 1892; made of dust from the impacts of cosmic bodies that crashed into Jupiter's moons; George Stephenson. | |
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