| | |
| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 23 | |
| 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. | |
| |
| Quotations for Today | |
| "Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color." (1994) - John C. Polanyi, German-born Nobel prize-winning Canadian chemist (born 23 Jan 1929) "I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery..." - Gertrude B. Elion, American Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist (born 23 Jan 1918) "Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment. If his understanding turns out to be appropriate and nobody else has ever come to such an understanding, he can claim that his thinking was really creative." - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese Nobel prize-winning physicist (born 23 Jan 1907) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Andrija Mohorovicic, born 23 Jan 1857, was a Croatian meteorologist and geophysicist who discovered the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle, a boundary now named the Mohorovicic discontinuity. How did he discover this boundary? | |
| Deaths | |
| Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864) was a German physician whose attempts to establish medicine as a natural science helped create modern methods for the teaching and practice of clinical medicine. He coined the term hemophilia (1828). He was the first to use a certain instrument in conjunction with urine and blood analyses to diagnose disease. What instrument was he first apply to blood analyses? | |
| Events | |
| On 23 Jan 1988, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first nonstop, around the world flight without refueling in a purpose-built airplane. They landed it safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. What was the name of their aircraft? | |
| On 23 Jan 1960, a specially constructed bathyscaphe, the Trieste, descended 35,810 feet in the Pacific Ocean into Challenger Deep, the deepest point known to exist on earth, is near the island of Guam. The record has stood unchallenged for 40 years since their historic dive. What is the name of the ocean trench containing Challenger Deep? | |
| On 23 Jan 1911, a scientist's nomination to the French Academy of Sciences, having already won one Nobel Prize (and whose work would later earn a second Nobel Prize), was nevertheless voted down by the Academy. Can you name this scientist? | |
| 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 23 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Feedback | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for January 22: Louis Paschen; fluorine; Whitworth standard screw threads; cyclotron. | |
| If you enjoy this newsletter, the website, or wish to offer encouragement or ideas, please write. |
If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link
To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link
! !
Δεν υπάρχουν σχόλια:
Δημοσίευση σχολίου