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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 11 | |
| 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 | |
| "We don't teach our students enough of the intellectual content of experiments - their novely and their capacity for opening new fields ... My own view is that you take these things personally. You do an experiment because your own philosophy makes you want to know the result. It's too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it's important. You must feel the thing yourself..." (1975) - Isidore Rabi (died 11 Jan 1988) "All of us are interested in our roots. Generally this interest is latent in youth, and grows with age. Until I reached fifty I thought that history of science was a refuge for old scientists whose creative juices had dried up. Now of course I know that I was wrong! As we grow older, we become more interested in the past, in family history, local history, etc. Astronomy is, or was when I started in it, almost a family." - Donald E. Osterbrock, American astronomer (died 11 Jan 2007) "It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity." - Albert Hofmann, Swiss pharmacologist who discovered LSD (born 11 Jan 1924) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Laurens Hammond, born 11 Jan 1895, was an American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ. During WW II, Laurens helped design guided missile controls with patents for bomb guidance. In what decade was the Hammond organ patented? | |
| Deaths | |
| Carl David Anderson (1905-1991) was an American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the first known particle of antimatter - the positron. What was the source of the positrons he found? | |
| Events | |
| On 11 Jan 1964, a U.S. Surgeon General's Report was the subject of a press conference. It was America's first widely publicized official recognition of "a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." What was this hazard? | |
| On Jan 11 1930, an element was discovered that was named after a country. Which element? | |
| On 11 Jan 1787, William Herschel discovered the first moon of Uranus, six years after he had discovered the planet. What is the name of this moon? | |
| 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 January 11 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for January 10: cosmic microwave background radiation, remnant radiation from the "Big Bang"; Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto; in the chromosomes of the cell-kemels, also in cell plasma; the "single", the 7-inch diameter 45 rpm record; Beaumont, Texas. | |
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