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| NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 28 | |
| 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 | |
| "When you innoculate children with a polio vaccine you don't sleep well for two or three months" - Jonas Salk, American Jewish physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for poliomyelitis (born 28 Oct 1914) "Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man." - Edouard Séguin, French-American psychiatrist who opened the world's first school for the severely mentally retarded (died 28 Oct 1880) "Stone, wood and iron are wrought and put together by mechanical methods, but the greatest work is to keep right the animal part of the machinery." - John Smeaton, father of civil engineering in Britain, who built the third Eddystone Lighthouse (died 28 Oct 1792) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Richard Synge was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for their development of a way of separating various substances. The method can be simply demonstrated: a drop of a mixture of substances is dropped on a strip of filter paper, which is allowed to draw up a suitable solvent (ex. butyl alcohol-water), by capillary action. What name is used for this separation method? | |
| Sir Richard Doll, born 28 Oct 1912, was a British epidemiologist who was one of the first two researchers to link cigarette smoking to lung cancer. He published in this groundbreaking research in the British Medical Journal. In which decade did he first publish his research linking cigarette smoking to cancer? | |
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| John Smeaton was an English civil engineer and designer (1724-1992) who is regarded as the father of civil engineering in Britain. In 1756-59 he built an enduring lighthouse at Plymouth, Devon, using dovetailed blocks of portland stone. Can you name this lighthouse? | |
| Events | |
| On 28 Oct 1971, England joined the number of nations to have a satellite. The Prospero, a Black Knight 1 satellite was launched into orbit by a Black Arrow rocket from Woomera, Australia. How many countries also had satellites at that time? | |
| On 28 Oct 1793, Eli Whitney applied for a patent which was granted the following March. Whitney solved the problem of making farming profitable in the southern U.S.. What was this invention? | |
| 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 28 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 27: crossbreeding fruit trees to survive the winters of Central Russia; born in Austria; nylon; barbed wire. | |
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