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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 7 | |
| 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 | |
| "It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty." - Marie Curie (born 7 Nov 1867) "You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries." - Lise Meitner (born 7 Nov 1878) "There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type." - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist who devised a theory of natural selection independently of Darwin (died 7 Nov 1913) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Lise Meitner, born 7 Nov 1878, was a physicist who shared the Enrico Fermi Award (1966) with the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann for their joint research beginning in 1934 that led to the discovery of uranium fission. She refused to work on the atom bomb. What was her nationality? | |
| Marie Curie was a Polish-born French chemist and physicist, born 7 Nov 1867, made celebrated experiments on uranium minerals which led to discovery of two new elements in 1898. First she separated polonium, and then a second new element a few months later. What was the second new element she discovered? | |
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| Cornelis Drebbel (1572-1633) was a Dutch inventor who built the first navigable though "rudimentary" submarine. Drebbel constructed his vessels while working for the British Navy. They never used it, but tested his submarine at depths of from 12 -15 feet beneath the surface during repeated trials in the Thames River. How was the movement of the submarine powered? | |
| Events | |
| On 7 Nov of a certain year, Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform. In what decade was this rocket demonstrated? | |
| On 7 Nov 1631, Pierre Gassendi made the first observation of the transit of a planet. Kepler had predicted a transit of a planet would occur in 1631. When Gassendi observed the dot of the planet passing across the face of the Sun, he was surprized - it seemed far too small, according to ancient conceptions of the relative sizes of heavenly objects.With a Galilean telescope he observed the transit by projecting the sun's image on a screen of paper. Which planet's transit did he observe? | |
| 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 7 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 6: lithography; French; iodine in table salt; black-footed ferret. | |
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