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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 30 | |
| 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 | |
| "After the German occupation, when I found myself in England, I thought I was in paradise. ... I think that whatever I accomplished it was due to my British experience and the chance that country gave me when I arrived there. ... (A) great number of scientists educated in England became Nobel Prize winners eventually. They simply received good schooling and training. The British taught me how to think practically and exercise my brain; at the same time they showed me, psychologically speaking, the approach necessary in planning a scientific experiment. What was most required was systematic planning, hard work and a great effort. I am not a patient person but I am disciplined ... " - Andrew Schally, Polish-born American, Nobel prize-winning endocrinologist (born 30 Nov 1926) (source) "Mr. Westinghouse said that in his judgment one of the most serious problems in the development of the country along right lines was the proper housing of the masses that were flocking to our industrial centers. He intimated that he had given the question much thought, and, if his affairs permitted, would be glad to attempt its solution along business lines, and yuey in the spirit of the highest and most practical philanthropy." - George Westinghouse, who on 30 Nov 1886 opened, the first commercially successful U.S. alternating current power plant. The quote is given as reported by a veteran officer of the Air Brake Company. (source) "Polyneuritis in birds ... is due to the lack of an essential substance in the diet. The substance is only present in minute amount, probably not more than 1 grm. per kilo of rice. The substance which is absent in polished rice and is contained in rice-polishings is an organic base. ... The curative dose of the active substance is small; a quantity of substance which contains 4mgr. of nitrogen cured pigeons." (1911) - Casimir Funk, Polish-American biochemist (died 30 Nov 1967) (source) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Nils Dalén, born 30 Nov 1869, was a Swedish engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912 for his invention of the automatic sun valve, which regulated a gaslight source by the action of sunlight and darkness It was used for buoys and unmanned lighthouses. In 1922, Dalen's Amalgamated Gas Accumulator Co. patented his design for a more efficient and cost-effective kitchen stove and began production. These stoves produced a radiant heat that kept the kitchen warm, and remains popular today. Can you name this popular stove? | |
| Deaths | |
| Casimir Funk (1884-1967) was a Polish-American biochemist who pusued the idea that diseases such as beriberi, scurvy, rickets and pellagra were caused by lack of vital substances in the diet. What name did he give these substances? | |
| An English pioneer researcher into magnetism (1544-1603) became the most distinguished man of science in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Can you name this scientist? | |
| Events | |
| On 30 Nov of a certain year, John Landis Mason received a U.S. patent for his invention known by his name - the Mason jar (No. 22,186). Although hundreds of men and women obtained patents for fruit jars, probably the most well known in the industry has been the Mason jar. It has become a common term for the preserved food jar. In which decade was patent issued? | |
| On 30 Nov 1784, American physician and scientist John Jeffries recorded the first scientific data for free air, to a height of 9,309-ft, including twelve observations of temperature, pressure, and humidity. Jeffries' values agree closely with modern determinations. How did he travel to such a great height? | |
| 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 November 30 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for November 29: The Fields Medal, Christian Doppler; Augusta Ada King Lovelace; the decade containing the year 1962; Nevada. | |
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