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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 27 | |
| 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 | |
| "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparé." Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur (born 27 Dec 1822) "As soon as we got rid of the backroom attitude and brought our apparatus fully into the Department with an inexhaustible supply of living patients with fascinating clinical problems, we were able to get ahead really fast. Any new technique becomes more attractive if its clinical usefulness can be demonstrated without harm, indignity or discomfort to the patient... Anyone who is satisfied with his diagnostic ability and with his surgical results is unlikely to contribute much to the launching of a new medical science. He should first be consumed with a divine discontent with things as they are. It greatly helps, of course, to have the right idea at the right time, and quite good ideas may come, Archimedes fashion, in one's bath." - Ian Donald, English physician who first successfully applied ultrasound reflection imaging for medical diagnosis (born 27 dec 1910) "The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena." - Sir William Cecil Dampier, British scientist, agriculturist, and science historian who developed a method of extracting milk sugar from the surplus whey when World War I caused a cheese shortage in Britain (born 27 Dec 1867) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist, was born 27 Dec 1822. His contributions were among the most varied and valuable in the history of science and industry. He proved that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease. How many diseases can you name for which Pasteur prepared vaccines? | |
| A German astronomer, born 27 Dec 1571, discovered three major laws of planetary motion, conventionally designated as follows: (1) the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; (2) the time necessary to traverse any arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the central body. Can you name this famous astronomer? | |
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| Charles Martin Hall (1863-1914) was an American chemist and inventor who discovered the electrolytic method of producing a certain common metal from its ore into wide commercial use. Which metal did he make available at low cost? | |
| Events | |
| On 27 Dec 1831, Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth harbour on his voyage of scientific discovery aboard a British Navy ship. The Captain Robert FitzRoy was sailing to the southern coast of South America in order to complete a government survey. Darwin had an unpaid position as the ship's naturalist, at age 22, just out of university. Originally planned to be at sea for two years, the voyage lasted five years, making stops in Brazil, the Galapogos Islands, and New Zealand. What was the name of the ship? | |
| 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 27 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 26: germanium; Charles Babbage; Dian Fossey; computer; radium. | |
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