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| NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 5 |
| 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 |
| "The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. In order to explain our perceptions it constructs the concept of matter and then finds matter quite useless either for itself having or for causing perceptions in a mind. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time ... The source of this kind of logic lies in the excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought." - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (died 5 Sep 1906) "S = k log W " - Carved above Boltzmann's name on his tombstone. "The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces." - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist (died 5 Sep 1902) |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Eugen Goldstein, born 5 Sep 1850, was a German physicist known for his work on electrical phenomena in gases and on cathode rays. He coined the term "cathode ray" (1876) emitted from a cathode. What other rays did he discover? |
| Deaths |
| Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844-1906) was a physicist who founded statistical mechanics. He also worked out a kinetic theory of gases, and the Stefan-Boltzmann law concerning a relationship between the temperature of a body and the radiation it emits. What was the cause of his death? |
| Events |
| On 5 Sep 1951, the U.S. President inaugurated transcontinental television service when AT&T carried his address to the United Nations in San Francisco to viewers as far away as New England. Who was the President? |
| On 5 Sep of a certain year, the first gasoline pump in the U.S. was sold to Jake Gumper, owner of a service station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as invented and built by Sylvanus Bowser. 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 5 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 4: a type of virus that infects bacteria, rather than ordinary cells; 1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago; Harry Truman; decade of 1882. |
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