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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2 | |
| 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 | |
| "The disc and tape will exist side by side. Neither one of them seems to be replacing the other one. The disc is convenient for choosing a certain selection—which a lot of people prefer. There are ways you could put a whole library on laser disk . . . laser beams. The only problem is, it wouldn't be profitable. People will expect to pay the same for a laser disc that they do for a single piece of music." (1973) - Peter Carl Goldmark, American electrical engineer (born 2 Dec 1906) " We all felt the majesty of the body. … As we saw the artificial heart beat … the feeling was not aren't we great, but aren't we small." (1983) - William C. DeVries, American surgeon (who implanted the first permanent artificial heart for a human patient on 2 Dec 1982) "Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. " - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (died 2 Dec 1935) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| George Richards Minot, born 2 Dec 1885, was an American physician who received (with George Whipple and William Murphy) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for the introduction of a successful diet to regenerate blood hemoglobin in the treatment of pernicious anemia, which was previously an invariably fatal disease. What was the food item that was significant in this treatment? | |
| Deaths | |
| A Flemish cartographer (1512-1594) made a now familiar innovation to the map of the world, embodying a projection on which parallels and meridians are rendered as straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude. He also introduced the term atlas for a collection of maps. Can you name this man, or the map projection still used and known by his name? | |
| Events | |
| On 2 Dec of a certain year, Louis-Paul Cailletet became the first to liquefy oxygen. He succeeded in producing liquid oxygen by allowing the cold, compressed gas to expand, depending on the effect discovered by Joule and Thomson, that cooled the gas to below its critical temperature. In which decade was this first liquid oxygen made? | |
| On 2 Dec 1942, in a makeshift lab underneath the University of Chicago football stands at Stagg Field, Enrico Fermi and his team succeeded in the first of a new type of experiment. What was accomplished for the first time in this experiment? | |
| On 2 Dec 1934, the molten glass was poured in the Corning, N.Y. for the first 200-inch diameter telescope mirror. Cooling of the 20-ton disk was controlled for about a year. Subsequent grinding was not finished until 11 years later. It was installed in the Hale telescope, named after its tireless promoter. In which observatory was this telescope installed? | |
| 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 2 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 1: uranium; New Zealand; the decade containing the year 1990; a soiless culture: growing of plants with their roots suspended in water containing mineral nutrients; Rutherford B. Hayes. | |
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