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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 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 | |
| "Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness." - Alfred Nobel (died 10 Dec 1896) "Imagination is the Discovering Faculty pre-eminently ... it is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL that we see not, which exists not for our senses ... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things ... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us! - Countess Augusta Ada King Lovelace, English mathematician (born 10 Dec 1815) "Research cannot be forced very much. There is always the danger of too much foliage and too little fruit." - Theobald Smith, American microbiologist (died 10 Dec 1934) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Walter Henry Zinn, born 10 Dec 1906, is a Canadian-American nuclear physicist who contributed to the U.S. atomic bomb project during World War II and to the development of the nuclear reactor. After the war Zinn started the design of an atomic reactor and, in 1951, he built the first breeder reactor. What is a breeder reactor? | |
| An American librarian, born 10 Dec 1851 was an activist in the spelling reform and metric system movements. He is credited with the invention of the vertical office file. His best known invention was a system of library cataloging still widely used today that uses numbers from 000 to 999 to cover the general fields of knowledge and designating more specific subjects by the use of decimal points. Can you name this inventor? | |
| Deaths | |
| Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was the inventor of dynamite and other, more powerful explosives. An explosives expert like his father, in 1866 he invented a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin he called dynamite, and later, smokeless gunpowder and (1875) gelignite. He helped to create an industrial empire manufacturing many of his other inventions. What was Nobel's nationality? | |
| Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770-1831) was a German physicist who discovered (1821) that an electric current flows between different conductive materials under certain conditions, known as the Seebeck effect. What conditions cause the Seebeck effect? | |
| Events | |
| On 10 Dec of a certain year, the National Science Foundation reported the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system, orbiting a star 21 million light years from Earth. In what decade was this discovery reported? | |
| On 10 Dec 1954, Lt. Col. John Paul Stapp, a flight surgeon, rode a rocket sled to 632 mph in a rocket powered sled at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. He reached a speed of 632 mph in five seconds. At the end of the ride Stapp was stopped in 1.25 seconds which subjected him to 40 Gs. What was the intended application of this experiment? | |
| 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 December 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 December 9: COBOL; fish fillets; Mary Leakey; computer mouse; the decade containing the year 1884. | |
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