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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 12 | |
| 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 | |
| "Meteor succeeded meteor in such rapid succession that it was impossible to count them; at times the sky seemed full of them, and the earth was illuminated as with a morning light." - Boston Transcript describing the Leonid meteor shower as seen in 1833; first known written record in the U.S. on 12 Nov 1799. "Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all." - Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles (born 12 Nov 1746) "I may say that in my opinion true Science and true Religion neither are nor could be opposed." - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron of Rayleigh (born 12 Nov 1842) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Audouin Dollfus, born 12 Nov 1924, is a French astronomer, who made several balloon flights for high-altitude observations, including the first stratospheric ascension in France. On the basis of comparative light-polarizing qualities, he concluded that the surface material of Mars consists of pulverized limonite. Limonite is made up of what metal oxide? | |
| Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles was a French mathematician, physicist, and inventor. With Nicolas and Anne-Jean Robert, he made several balloon ascents, and was the first to use hydrogen for balloon inflation (1783). Charles invented most of the equipment that is still used in today's balloons. About 1787 he developed Charles's law for a gas at constant pressure. What is the relationship given in Charles' law? | |
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| Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an American astronomer who predicted the existence of a new planet and initiated the search that ended in its discovery. What planet's existence did he predict? | |
| Events | |
| On 12 Nov of a certain year, the first modern surgery on the frontal lobes for treatment of mental disorders was performed by Egas Moniz Portugal. Moniz injected absolute alcohol into the frontal lobes of a mental patient through two holes drilled in the skull. He later used a technique that severed neurons. Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Such radical surgery has fallen out of favour. In what decade was this first such surgery made? | |
| On 12 Nov 1833, a great shower of meteors was recorded. Many observers clearly reported that the meteors seemed to radiate from a spot in the sky, and as the stars moved slowly westward during the night, the radiant point moved with it. This recurrent phenomenon is now known as the Leonid meteor storm. Why was the name Leonid given to these meteors? | |
| 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 12 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 11: American; the century containing his death year, 1541; New York City; the decade containing the year 1925; a supernova - Nova Cassiopeiae 1572. | |
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