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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 3 | |
| 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 | |
| "Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." - Lewis Thomas (died 3 Dec 1993) "I never said it was possible. I only said it was true." - Charles Richet, French Nobel prize-winning physiologist (died 3 Dec 1935) "The children, between 1 and 6 years old (in the hospital emergency room), thrashed in agony on their beds, choking, vomiting and screaming to suck in air. Their parents and relatives stood nearby, watching helplessly as doctors placed intravenous feeding tubes in the children's arms and oxygen tubes in their noses and mouths. 'Their chances of survival are 50-50,' said Dr. H.H. Ravedi, the hospital's deputy superintendent." - New York Times, reporting the day after the Bhopal industrial disaster of 3 Dec 1984. | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Peter C. Schultz, born 3 Dec 1942 was an American ceramicist who, working with Corning Glass researchers Robert Maurer and Donald Keck, made a product (1970) capable of replacing and improving on copper in a specific now well-known application. What was this revolutionary product? | |
| Carl Koller, born 3 Dec 1857, was a Czech-born American ophthalmic surgeon who introduced a new surface anesthetic in eye surgery (1884) and inaugurated the modern era of local anesthesia. What was the anesthetic Koller introduced for eye surgery? | |
| Deaths | |
| James Challis (1803-1882) was a British clergyman and astronomer, famous in the history of astronomy for a failure. What was this failure? | |
| Events | |
| On 3 Dec 1984, shortly after midnight, the inhabitants of the city of Bhopal, India, became victims of the world's worst industrial disaster. Over 40 tonnes of highly poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide factory. Poisonous gases enveloped an area of 40 sq.kms. killing thousands of people in its immediate wake. Over 500,000 suffered from acute breathlessness, pain in the eyes and vomiting as they ran in panic to get away from the poison clouds that hung close to the ground for more than four hours. For use in what final product was the methyl isocyanate gas being manufactured? | |
| On 3 Dec 1967, in Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons, performed the first human heart transplant on a South African businessman with the healthy heart of a woman who had died in a car crash. The patient survived 18 days before succumbing to double pneumonia, contracted after destruction of his body's immunity mechanism by drugs administered to suppress rejection of the new heart as a foreign protein. Who was the surgeon who led his team in this first heart transplant? | |
| 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 3 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 2: raw-liver; Gerardus Mercator; the decade containing the year 1877; the world's first artificial nuclear chain reaction; Mount Palomar Observatory. | |
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