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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 2 |
| 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 touch the future." - Christa McAuliffe (born 2 Sep 1948) "The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind. (But)... the still unrecognized 'energy problem'... awaits the future." - Frederick Soddy (born 2 Sep 1877) "When I was ignorant of Latin, I did not suspect that Telfer, my true name, might be translated, 'I bear arms,' (Tela fero?) and, thinking it unmeaning, adopted Telford." - Thomas Telford (died 2 Sep 1834. The year 2007 is the 250th anniversary of his birth, on 9 Aug 1757) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Christa McAuliffe, born 2 Sep 1948 was a civilian astronaut on the 10th launch of the Challenger Space Shuttle, which exploded in midair, killing its crew of seven. What was her career? |
| Frederick Soddy, born 2 Sep 1877, was an English chemist and physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921 for investigating radioactive substances. He suggested that different elements produced in different radioactive transformations were capable of occupying the same place on the Periodic Table. What name did he give to these "same-place" elements? |
| Deaths |
| William Henry (1775-1836) was an English physician and chemist, who proposed (1803) what is now called Henry's law, which states that the amount of a gas absorbed by a liquid is in proportion... Can you complete this statement of Henry's Law? |
| Events |
| On 2 Sep 1985, it was announced that a U.S. and French expedition had located the wreckage of a sunken ship about 560 miles off Newfoundland, 73 years after the British luxury liner sank. What is the name of this vessel? |
| The last day of the Julian calendar in Great Britain and the British colonies was 2 Sep 1752. The Gregorian Calendar designed to correct the extra leap year day problem went into effect the next day with tomorrow being numbered after dropping several days to realign the calendar. What was the day after 2 Sep 1752? |
| 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 2 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 1: pernicious anemia; device that separates atoms or molecular fragments of different mass and measures those masses; pneumatic tube; subatomic particles having extremely short lifetimes and occurring only in high-energy nuclear collisions; passenger pigeon. |
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