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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 10 | |
| 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 | |
| "As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man." - Ernst Otto Fischer (born 10 Nov 1918) "(Why do animals) undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... The explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish." - Francis Maitland Balfour, British zoologist, a founder of modern embryology (born 10 Nov 1851) "Apart from its healthful mental training as a branch of ordinary education, geology as an open-air pursuit, affords an admirable training in habits of observation, furnishes a delightful relief from the cares and routine of everyday life, takes us into open fields and the free fresh face of sequestered nooks, whither hardly any other occupation or interest would be likely to send us, sets before us problems of the highest interest regarding the ground beneath our feet, and thus gives a new charm to scenery which may be already replete with attractions." - Archibald Geike, Scottish geologist (died 10 Nov 1924) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Ernst Otto Fischer, born 10 Nov 1918, is a German theoretical chemist who was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for his identification of a completely new way in which metals and organic substances can combine. Fischer first knew of a newly synthesized organometallic sandwich compound in 1951. Since at that time its structure was unknown, Fischer studied it, and determined that it consisted of a single metal atom sandwiched between two five-sided carbon rings. Which metal atom was in the compound he studied? | |
| Robert Innes, born 10 Nov 1861, was a Scottish astronomer who in 1915 discovered the closest star to earth after the Sun. Can you name this star? | |
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| Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) was a British paleontologist who, in 1825, named the iguanadon ("fossil teeth") based on his find of its fossil teeth (1822) which had similarities to those of the present lizard, the iguana. In his life he also discovered fossils of 4 of the 5 genera of a certain type of animals known in time. For which kind of animal did he find 4 of the 5 then-known genera? | |
| Events | |
| On 10 Nov of a certain year, the discovery of the "charmed quark" subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by the two American experimental groups responsible. The new particle, of mass 3095 MeV had a lifetime about 1000 times more than that of other particles of comparable mass. In what decade was this discovery made? | |
| On 10 Nov 1885, the world's first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its debut. The frame and wheels were made of wood. Power from the engine was transferred to large brass gears mounted to the rear wheel. What was used to transfer the engine power to the wheel gears? | |
| 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 10 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 9: stuff; Benjamin Banneker; Israel's first president; limelight. | |
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