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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 10 | |
| 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 | |
| "The nurse of doubts seems to me to be the fact that, in the consideration of questions relating to nature, those points which cannot be definitely determined are not distinguished from those which can be settled with certainty" - Nicolaus Steno (born 10 Jan 1683) (source) "Both of my parents are inveterate do-it-yourselfers, almost no task being beneath their dignity or beyond their ingenuity. Having picked up a keen interest in electronics from my father, I used to fix radios and later television sets for fun and spending money. I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked." - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American radio astronomer (born 10 Jan 1936) (source) Recalling his method for the wartime production of penicillin: "Because it was wartime there were very great scarcities of everything. I am not a very good scientist, but I am very good at improvising." - Norman Heatley (born 10 Jan 1911) (source) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson, born 10 Jan 1936, was an American radio astronomer who shared, with his coworker Arno Penzias, the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics made a discovery using a microwave horn antenna at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey in 1964. What was this discovery? | |
| Simon Marius, born 10 Jan 1573, was a German astronomer who named the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1609. All four are named after mythological figures with whom Jupiter fell in love. He and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei both claimed to have discovered them, about 1610, and it is likely both did so independently. What are the names of these four largest moons of Jupiter? | |
| Deaths | |
| Lord Alexander R. Todd (1907-1977) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. It was known that they are built up of three quite different "building stones": phosphoric acid, a sugar, and a heterocyclic base containing nitrogen, assembled in one macromolecule. Todd researched how they are connected to each other. Where are nucleotides found? | |
| Events | |
| On 10 Jan 1949, RCA introduced a new form of phonograph record in the U.S. What was this new type of record? | |
| On 10 Jan 1901, the discovery of oil at Spindletop marked the beginning of oil finds in that U.S. state. Which state? | |
| 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 10 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 9: DNA Fingerprinting for unique forensic identification of humans other organisms from their DNA material; Puffing Billy; the decade including the year 1839; Albert Einstein. | |
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