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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 4 | |
| 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 | |
| "If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time." - Harold Edgerton (died 4 Jan 1990) (source) "Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness" - Marie-Louise von Franz, Swiss Jungian psychologist (born 4 Jan 1915) "Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning." - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian Nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist (died 4 Jan 1961) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Louis Braille, born 4 Jan 1809, was a French educator who developed a system of printing and writing widely used by the blind and known by his name. He became blind at the age four, from an accident playing with an awl. He developed a writing scheme using combinations of six raised dots for each letter. In 1827 the first book in braille was published. His invention was based on an code system shown to him by a soldier that used combinations of 12 dots. For what was the soldier's code originally invented? | |
| Benjamin Rush, born 4 Jan 1746, was an American physician and political leader. His encouragement of clinical research and instruction was frequently offset by his insistence upon bloodletting, purging, and other debilitating therapeutic measures. What famous document did he sign? | |
| Deaths | |
| An American electrical engineer and photographer (1903-1990) was noted for developing techniques of high-speed photography and applying them to various scientific uses. Can you name this famous inventor of high-speed photography? | |
| Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) was a theoretical physicist who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac. What was his nationality? | |
| Events | |
| On 4 Jan 1958, a Russian satellite, the first man-made object to orbit the earth, fell back into the atmosphere and disintegrated, after 92 days in space. The meaning of the Russian name of the satellite is "companion" or "fellow traveller". What is the name of this satellite? | |
| 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 4 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 3: that the Milky Way Galaxy has spiral arms; torpedo; to depict the number and variety of genetic combinations; Josiah Wedgwood; the decade including the year 1957;nitrogen and oxygen. | |
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