Newsletter for Thursday 29 November

 

 

TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY

NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 29

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

"Many Species of Animals have been lost out of the World, which Philosophers and Divines are unwilling to admit, esteeming the Destruction of any one Species is a Dismemembering of the Universe, and rendering the World imperfect..." (1713) - John Ray, English naturalist (born 29 Nov 1627) "...biologists, and in general all scientists .. .have learned from the experience of nuclear energy and are conscious that it is their duty to inform society of the implications of the advances in their own fields." - Guido Pontecorvo, Italian geneticist (born 29 Nov 1907) (source) "Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs." - Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist (born 29 Nov 1825)

QUIZ

Births

Richard Ewen Borcherds, born 29 Nov 1959, is a British mathematician who in 1998 was awarded what has been called the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for  mathematicians. His achievement was his proof of the so-called "Moonshine" conjecture. What is the name of the mathematician's most prestigious award?

An Austrian physicist, born 29 Nov 1803, first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This effect became known by his name Can you name this scientist?

Deaths

An English mathematician (1815-1852) was an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Can you name this woman?

Events

On 29 Nov of a certain year, the first U.S. satellite carrying an animal was launched from Cape Canaveral.  In which decade was this satellite launched?

On 29 Nov 1951, the first U.S. underground atom bomb test was exploded at Frenchman Flat. In what U.S. state was this atom bomb test made ?

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 29 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 28: binary pulsar; archaeologist;  neutrino; the decade containing the year 1948; Jocelyn Bell.

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