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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 9 | |
| 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 Mighty Task is Done At last the mighty task is done; "What the psychologists have hitherto called thought is nothing but talking to ourselves." (1924) - John B. Watson, American psychologist (born 9 Jan 1878) "Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." - Willis R. Whitney, American research director, founder of General Electric Company's research laboratory (died 9 Jan 1958) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Sir Alec Jefferys, born 9 Jan 1950, is an English geneticist who did some work on hereditary disease by tracing genetic markers through families to understand inheritance patterns of illness. However, he is best known for the extension of this work. For what purpose is the technique he discovered now widely used? | |
| Deaths | |
| William Hedley (1779-1843) was an English coal-mine official and inventor who was probably the first to build a commercially useful steam locomotive dependent on friction between wheels and rails (as prevails in modern times) as opposed to any geared track. He patented this design on 13 Mar 1813. The same year, his locomotive began to pull coal trucks on a five mile line from a mine at Wylam, Northumberland, to dockside at Lemington-on-Tyne. Can you name this locomotive? | |
| Events | |
| On 9 Jan of a certain year, the daguerrotype photo process was announced at the French Academy of Science. In what decade was the daguerrotype announced. | |
| On 9 Jan 1998, two teams of international collaborations of scientists announced the discovery that galaxies are accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds, by observing distant, ancient exploding stars. This observation implies the existence of a mysterious, self-repelling property of space. Such had earlier been proposed by a theoretical physicist, which he called the cosmological constant. Who was the theoretical physicist? | |
| 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 9 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 8: Stephen Hawking is the 17th Lucasian Professor (Michael Green became the 18th in 2009); sunspots; cotton gin; Galileo Galilei; tallying data for the 1890 U.S. census. | |
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