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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 12 | |
| 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 | |
| "Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be." - Robert Noyce (born 12 Dec 1927) "The tension felt in the modern world between those who look at the confluence of neuroscientific data, historical data, and other information illuminating our past and those who simply accept received wisdom as their guide in life is real and profound. Yet it may not be as divisive as one would think. It appears that all of us share the same moral networks and systems, and we all respond in similar ways to similar issues. The only thing different, then, is not our behavior but our theories about why we respond the way we do. It seems to me that understanding that our theories are the source of all our conflicts would go a long way in helping people with different belief systems to get along." - Michael Gazzaniga, American cognitive neuroscientist (born 12 Dec 1939) "Choice is freedom. Science cannot and must not dictate our beliefs. But science can provide choices." - Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, developer of RU-486 (born 12 Dec 1926) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Philip Drinker, born 12 Dec 1894, was an engineer a device that through the late 1920's and into the 50's, was considered to be state of the art, high tech, life support technology. Such devices were recommended treatment for certain victims of poliomyelitis. Can you name this invention? | |
| Deaths | |
| David Sarnoff (1891-1971) was a pioneer in the development of both radio and television broadcasting. He became a wireless operator and met Marconi in 1906. Foreseeing the multiple possibilities of radio, he became commercial manager of American Marconi in 1917. RCA grew from the Marconi group (1919). In 1926, he founded a television network. Which television network did he establish? | |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) was an American astronomer known for her discovery of the relationship between period and luminosity in Cepheid variables, pulsating stars that vary regularly in brightness. In 1912, she announced what has since become known as the Period-Luminosity. To what measurement is this relationship applied today? | |
| Events | |
| On 12 Dec of a certain year, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu in Cornwall, which was received by Percy Wright Page in St John's, Newfoundland. In which decade was this radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean? | |
| On 12 Dec 1955, Christopher Cockerell filed his first patent for the new form of transportation he fathered. What form of transportation did he develop? | |
| 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 12 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 11: James Lewis Kraft; lighthouse lights; pituitary gland; Gene Cernan; Harrison Schmitt; Britain and France. | |
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