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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 9 | |
| 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 | |
| "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan (born 9 Nov 1934) "I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded." - (his gravestone epitaph) Gail Borden, American inventor of a commercial method of condensing milk to preserve it (born 9 Nov 1801) "I am not one of those who believe in the dichotomy of knowledge as expressed in C.P. Snow's conception of two cultures. I think there is much science in art and much art in science, as witness the invention of photography, the radio and television and musical instruments in general on the one hand, and the skill of the surgeon, the architect, and the engineer on the other..." - Ronald G.W. Norrish, British chemist and Nobel prize-winner (born 9 Nov 1897) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| A U.S. astronomer and exobiologist, born 9 Nov 1934, was also a science writer, and studied such diverse aspects of the solar system as the conditions of planetary surfaces and atmospheres and the possibility of extraterrestrial life; he stimulated popular interest in these subjects through his enthusiastic writings, lectures, and the television series Cosmos. Can you add one word to complete his famous quote: "We are star-_______." | |
| A U.S. mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor, and writer, born 9 Nov 1731, was one of the first important black American intellectuals. He was largely self-educated in astronomy by watching the stars and in mathematics by reading borrowed textbooks. Can you name this scientist? | |
| Deaths | |
| Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was a Russian-British-Israeli chemist who used bacteria for the synthesis of organic chemicals. During WW I, a recent immigrant into Great Britain, he discovered a way to use a bacterium to synthesize acetone during the fermentation of grain. Acetone was important in the manufacture of cordite for explosives. Weizmann was active in politics leading to the establishment of Israel (1948). What political position did this research scientist hold in Israel? | |
| Events | |
| On 9 Nov 1825, a new form of llight was first used in a practical way. When its inventor, Thomas Drummond, set it in front of a reflector at Scotland's Slieve Snaght, the light was seen from Divis Mountain, over 66 miles away. This provided a new form of bright light used not only in theatres, but also in lighthouses. What was this new form of light? | |
| 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 9 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 8: Hermann Rorschach; 76 years; Titusville, Pennsylvania; astatine. | |
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