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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 6 |
| 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 |
| "This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little." - Luis Federico Leloir (born 6 Sep 1906) replying when asked about the significance of his Nobel prize-winning achievement. "... the history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it." - Sir Edward Appleton (born 6 Sep 1892) "Chemical analysis and synthesis go no further than to the separation of particles one from another, and to their reunion. No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." - English chemist in quiz below (born 6 Sep 1766). |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Louis Essen, born 6 Sep 1908, invented the first practical atomic clock. He built a atomic-beam clock utilizing the natural frequencies of an atom that are inherently stable over time and space to greatly increase the accuracy of time-keeping. The atoms of which element were used in Essen's atomic clock? |
| On 6 Sep 1766, a giant in the history of chemistry was born - an English scientist, who developed the atomic theory of matter and hence is known as one of the fathers of modern physical science. Can you name this scientist? |
| Deaths |
| Sir Frederick Abel (1827-1902) was an English chemist and military explosives specialist who co-invented cordite (1889) to replace gunpowder in weapons. What was the advantage of cordite over gunpowder? |
| Events |
| On 6 Sep of a certain year, the first British telephone exchange opened in Lombard Street, London. What was the decade of this event? |
| On 6 Sep 1947, the aircraft-carrier Midway became the first U.S. vessel from which a long-range rocket was launched. It was fired from the flight deck from a position at sea several hundred miles of the east coast of the U.S. the rocket travelled about 6 miles. However, the rocket being observed was not American-made. Why was the rocket used for the first U.S. vessel launch not American-made? |
| 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 6 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 5: canal rays; suicide; Beagle's Captain, Robert Fitzroy; decade of 1887. |
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