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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 5 | |
| 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 | |
| "In the domain of research, chance is a powerful collaborator. Happy are those who can profit by it." (1924) - Christiaan Eijkman (died 5 Nov 1930) "I am charmed but not impressed by the picture of life forms developing in warm little ponds, protected in their icy igloos from the cruel cold and near vacuum of open space, and falling to primitive Earth at speeds exceeding eleven kilometers per second" - Fred Whipple (born 5 Nov 1906) "It's shape is aggressively female - a quality that in merchandise, as in life, sometime transcends functionalism." (referring to the Coca-Cola bottle shape, which he designed) - Raymond Loewy, French-born American inventor, engineer, known as the "Father of Streamlining" (born 5 Nov 1893) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Fred Lawrence Whipple, born 5 Nov 1906, is an American astronomer who proposed a structure for comet nuclei. This model was confirmed in 1986 when spacecraft flew past comet Halley. What is the popular name for his model of comet nuclei? | |
| Deaths | |
| Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) was a Dutch physicist and astronomer, one of the most important figures in 20th-century efforts to understand the nature of the Milky Way Galaxy, who measured the rotation of the earth's galaxy and hypothesized a model for the origin of comets. What is the popular name for his model of the origin of comets? | |
| The researches of a very famous Scottish physicist and mathematician (1831-1879) united electricity and magnetism into the concept of the electro-magnetic field. Around 1862, he calculated that the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic field is approximately that of the speed of light. He proposed that the phenomenon of light is therefore an electromagnetic phenomenon. Can you name this man? | |
| Events | |
| On 5 Nov of a certain year, George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first U.S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile. In the patent, which he had filed several years earlier, he described not only the engine but also a complete automobile incorporating such features as a clutch, compressed air self-starter, and steering system. As a patent attorney, he knew to delay the issue of the patent by sending amendments and other communications every two years. Meanwhile, others did the hard work of developing the automobile, and his patent became more valuable. Years of legal wrangling for profits followed. In what decade was this patent issued? | |
| On 5 Nov 1906, at the Sorbonne, France, the first female physics teacher in the school's history delivered her first lecture. Can you name this Polish scientist? | |
| 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 5 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 4: copper; double refraction; the decade containing the year 1922; air-conditioning. | |
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