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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 1 | |
| 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 | |
| "Science is the synergy of efforts, born from a kind of symbiosis among people. ... Together, we should be able to create a better world, a world of which we, human beings, may be proud." - Martin Rodbell, American Nobel prize-winning chemist (born 1 Dec 1925) "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. " - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (born 1 Dec 1792) "Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches." - J.B.S. Haldane, British geneticist and science popularizer (died 1 Dec 1964) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Martin Heinrich Klaproth, born 1 Dec 1743, was a German chemist who was one of the founders of analytical chemistry. He discovered zirconium and another now well-known element in 1789, and cerium (1803), and contributed to the identification of others. He described them as distinct elements, though he did not obtain them in the pure metallic state. He was Europe's leading analytical chemist. A significant contribution was his insistence on accepting the importance of reporting "small" losses and gains in weight in analytical work. What was the other, heavy element he discovered in 1789? | |
| Deaths | |
| Anthropologist Sir Peter Buck (1879-1951) originally was named Te Rangi Hiroa a the son of a Maori chiefess. He practised medicine, was a member of parliament and served in WW I. After becoming an anthropologist, he joined the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, and later was its director from 1936 until his death. In what country do the Maori live? | |
| Events | |
| On 1 Dec of a certain year, British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met in the service tunnel after knocking out a passage large enough to walk through and shake hands. The United Kingdom and France were now linked for the first time in 8,000 years. In which decade was this link first made? | |
| On 1 Dec 1936, the first U.S. patent was issued for a method of growing plants in a large commercial hydroponicum. The related word for this method was coined in the early 1930s, by Professor Gericke at U.C.L.A. How are plant grown by this method? | |
| On 1 Dec 1878, the White House, Washington, DC, had its first telephone installed by Alexander Graham Bell himself. It is reported that the president's first outgoing call went to Bell, thirteen miles away. Hayes first words instructed Bell to speak more slowly. Which president used the first White House telephone? | |
| 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 1 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 30: AGA stove; vitamins; William Gilbert; the decade containing the year 1858; balloon flight. | |
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