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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 13 | |
| 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 | |
| "An education in medicine involves both learning and learning how; the student cannot effectively know, unless he knows how." - Abraham Flexner, reformer of U.S. medical education (born 13 Nov 1866) "When Clifford Holland talks tunnels, his listener is in danger of being convinced that tunnels are the only safe refuge for mankind. By the time he has finished, his hearer sees in a tunnel all the allurement that a mole finds in a nice constructed burrow." - Remark quoted in the New York Times about the recently deceased Clifford Holland, engineer of the Holland Tunnel (opened for vehicular traffic 13 Nov 1927) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Edward Adelbert Doisy, born 13 Nov 1893, was an American biochemist who shared the 1943 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his isolation and synthesis of an antihemorrhagic vitamin - that encourages blood clotting. In 1936-39 Doisy isolated two forms of the vitamin, (one from lucerne seed and a second from fish meal, in a pure crystalline form), and determined their chemical structures, Which vitamin is this? | |
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| Herbert Eugene Ives (1882-1953) was a physicist and inventor of transmission of mechanical video pictures. Research into a television process by the AT&T Co. at Bell Laboratories, New York was under the direction of Dr. Herbert E. Ives. Live images of Commerce Secretary Hoover were transmitted in the first successful long distance demonstration of television, sent from Washington D.C. to New York, over long distance wires. In which decade was this first long distance demonstration of television made? | |
| Events | |
| On 13 Nov 1971, Mariner-9, the first man-made object to orbit another planet, entered orbit. The mission of the unmanned craft was to return photographs mapping 70% of the surface, and to study the planet's thin atmosphere, clouds, and hazes, together with its surface chemistry and seasonal changes. Which planet did Mariner-9 orbit? | |
| On 13 Nov 1946, artificial snow from a natural cloud was produced over Mount Greylock, Mass., for the first time in the U.S. An airplane spread snow-inducing material for three miles at a height of 14,000 ft. Although the snow fell an estimated 3,000 feet, it evaporated as it fell through dry air, and never reached the ground. What was the snow-inducing material? | |
| 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 13 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 12: iron oxide; for a gas at constant pressure, its volume is directly proportional to its absolute temperature; Pluto; the decade containing the year 1935; they appeared to come from the same point in the Leo constellation. | |
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