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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 28 | |
| 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 | |
| "Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist." - Enrico Fermi (died 28 Nov 1954) "My parents tell me that I quickly showed an unusual level of curiosity about the world around me as a child, and that this transformed itself into an interest in science at a very early age. ... I ran through a seemingly endless series of interests involving chemistry sets, mechanical engineering construction sets, biology dissection kits, butterfly collecting, photography, telescopes, electronics and many other things over the years." - Russell A. Hulse, American Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist (born 28 Nov 1950) (source) "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss, French social anthropologist (born 28 Nov 1908) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Russell Alan Hulse, born 28 Nov 1950, is an American physicist who in 1993 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics (with his former teacher, Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.) for their joint discovery (1974) of the first of a type of two celestial bodies so close they are separated by only several times the distance between the moon and the earth. Their findings, first reported in 1978, constitute the first indirect proof of the existence of the gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of relativity. What type of celestial bodies did they discover? | |
| Deaths | |
| Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian-born American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1938 as one of the chief architects of the nuclear age. He was the last of the double-threat physicists: a genius at creating both esoteric theories and elegant experiments. In 1933, he developed a theory postulating the existance of a new particle, before it was discovered. What did he name this new particle? | |
| Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894) was a scientist who bears the same surname as another famous scientist, but did his work in another field. What was the scientific field of Sir Charles Newton? | |
| Events | |
| On 28 Nov of a certain year, the first the Polaroid Land Camera first went on sale, at a Boston department store. The 40 series, model 95 roll film camera went on sale for $89.75. This first model was sold through 1953, and was the first commercially successful self-deleveloping camera system. A sepia-coloured photograph took about one minute to produce. In which decade was the Polaroid Land Camera placed on sale? | |
| On 28 Nov 1967, the first pulsating radio source (pulsar) was detected by an alert femalegraduate student, then working under the direction of Prof. A. Hewish at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, England. They were using a special radio telescope, a large array of 2,048 aerials covering an area of 4.4 acres. Can you name this 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 28 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 27: ampere; Swedish; motions of sunspots; the decade containing the year 1834; "phossy jaw". | |
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