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| NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 27 | |
| 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 | |
| "I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men." - Alain Bombard, French biologist (born 27 Oct 1924) who completed a single-handed 65-day voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions. In his later years, he was an avid environmentalist. "We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest then from her." - Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Russian horticulturist (born 27 Oct 1855) "Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with his big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen it is closing time.'" - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (born 27 Oct 1827) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, born 27 Oct 1855, was a Russian horticulturist, of little education but some skill. In 1932 the city known as Kozlov for four centuries became Michurinsk. What was his accomplishment that earned the praise of the Soviet government? | |
| Deaths | |
| Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a physicist, whose joint research with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann led to the discovery of uranium fission. She refused to work on the atom bomb. What was her nationality? | |
| Events | |
| On 27 Oct 1938, Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic fiber yarn. What was this name? | |
| On 27 Oct 1873, American farmer Joseph F. Glidden applied for a patent for a product that would transform the West. What was this product? | |
| 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 October 27 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for October 26: The century containing the year 1654; Igor I. Sikorsky; zinc. | |
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