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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 12 | |
| 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 | |
| "The further an experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize." - variously attributed to either of Irene Joliot-Curie (born 12 Sep 18976) or her husband, Frederic Jean Joliot. "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency." - President John F. Kennedy speaking on 12 Sep 1962 at Rice University. | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Alexander Langmuir, born 12 Sep 1910 was a US epidemiologist who created and led the Epidemic Intelligence Service and from 1949, directed for 20 years, the epidemiology branch of the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta. His efforts contributed to the virtual elimination of a certain disease. Can you name this disease? | |
| Edwin McMillan, born 12 Sep 1907, was a chemist who discovered two elements, and helped build the first atom bomb. What two elements did he discover? | |
| Irène Joliot-Curie, born 12 Sep 1897, daughter of Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie, was also in her turn, a French physical chemist, She and her husband were jointly awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize. For what achievement was the 1935 Nobel Prize awarded? | |
| Deaths | |
| Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) was an English physician who, in 1814, invented a "log-log" slide rule for calculating the roots and powers of numbers. After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he helped establish a medical school at Manchester, and practiced in London (1808-40). Upon retirement, from age 61 to 73, he produced a famous book. For what book is he famous? | |
| Events | |
| On 12 Sep1992, the crew of the Shuttle Endeavour included the first African-American woman in space, as a Science Mission Specialist aboard Endeavour. During the eight-day mission, she conducted space-sickness experiments and conducted research on bone loss in zero gravity. Can you name this astronaut? | |
| On 12 Sep 1940, five schoolboys exploring the Grotte de Lascaux, in France, made a remarkable discovery. What was this discovery? | |
| 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 12 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 11: the first to propose that matter is continuously created throughout the universe; fine optical instruments; the experimental study of the origin and chemical composition of rocks [note: the petr- in petroleum means "rock", -oleum refers to "oil", so petrology is the study of rock itself, not primarily related to petroleum!!]; 250 miles per year; the Beagle. | |
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