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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 6 | |
| 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 | |
| "...in science there are collectors, classifiers, compulsory tidiers-up and permanent contestors, detectives, some artists and many artisans, there are poet-scientists and philosophers and even a few mystics. " - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss Nobel prize-winning immunologist (born 6 Jan 1944) (source) "I didn't add any new elements (to the modern synthetic theory) to speak of. I just modified things so that people could understand how things were in the plant world." - G. Ledyard Stebbins, American botanist and geneticist (born 6 Jan 1906) "No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers." - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (born 6 Jan 1822) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, born 6 Jan 1745, French pioneer of the hot-air balloon with his brother, Joseph-Michel. An initial experiment with a balloon of taffeta filled with hot smoke was given a public demonstration on 4 Jun 1783. This was followed by a flight carrying three animals as passengers on 19 Sep 1783. One of these animals was named Montauciel (Climb-to-the-sky). On 21 Nov 1783, their balloon carried the first two men on an untethered flight - the first manned balloon flight. What were the three animals on the first "passenger" flight? | |
| Deaths | |
| Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow Soviet scientists for their investigation of the phenomenon exhibited by electrons as they pass through a transparent medium at a speed higher than the speed of light in that medium What phenomenon is associated with such very high speed electrons in a transparent medium? | |
| Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) was a Austrian pioneer of the study of heredity. He made two very important generalizations from his experiments, known today as the Laws of Heredity. Mendel coined the present day terms in genetics: recessiveness and dominance. With what did Mendel experiment to formulate his laws of heredity? | |
| Events | |
| On 6 Jan of a certain year, the first adult heart transplant in the U.S. was performed at the Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. The 54-year-old patient, whose heart had been damaged by virus infection, survived for 15 days after the surgery. In what decade was this U.S. heart transplant operation performed? | |
| On 6 Jan 1929, Sheffield Farms of New York switched to a new form of packaging for milk delivery What was the new form of packaging? | |
| 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 6 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 5: The decade including the year 1948; King Gillette; Peanuts (one of his products was peanut butter); The decade including the year 1896; Golden Gate Bridge. | |
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