Science Teachers ’ Assocation of NSW inc 2018 – 19 Calendar
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Chemistry Teachers ’ Conference – Macquarie University
1796 , English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox to an eightyear-old boy .
1932 , the 32km long Barrier Dam in Holland was completed to seal off Zuyder Zee from the North Sea and reclaim the land .
WESTERN AUSTRALIA DAY ( WA )
QUEEN ’ S BIRTHDAY
INTERNATIONAL PICNIC DAY
1863 birth of Friedrich Went , Dutch botanist , director of Botanical Garden at Univ of Utrecht , Netherlands . He initiated the study of plant hormones in his modern laboratory .
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1783 birth of William Sturgeon , English electrical engineer who devised the first electromagnet capable of supporting more than its own weight ( 1825 ).
1741 death of Jakob C . Le Blon , who invented the modern system of fourcolour printing . In 1710 he proposed that three primary colours - cyan , magenta , yellow , with black , can be mixed to produce all colours . observations of
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1977 , first personal computer , the Apple II , went on sale ; the invention of Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs .
2011 death of Rosalyn S . Yalow , US biophysicist ; 1977 Nobel Prize for development of radioimmuno assays of peptide hormones ; pioneering work that opened new directions in diabetes research .
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1806 birth of John A . Roebling , German- American engineer who pioneered the design and construction of suspension bridges , using steel cables .
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1977 , the US $ 7.7 billion trans-Alaskan oil pipeline opened . Oil takes 38 days to travel from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez .
1863 birth of Albert Sauveur , Belgian-born US metallurgist whose microscopic studies of metal structures make him a founder of physical metallurgy . He did key research on the hardening of steel .
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2000 , completion of a working draft DNA sequence of the human genome was announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton , representatives of HGP & Celera Genomics .
QUEENSLAND DAY ( QLD )
1983 , space probe vehicle Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Neptune and became the first man-made object to leave our Solar System . It was launched March 1972 and in 2002 a signal was received from it .
1954 , the world ’ s first grid-connected atomic power station began producing electricity in Obninsk , a small town 97 km south of Moscow .
1883 , during a sleepless night Svante Arrhenius had the idea for dissociation theory : substances separate into charged ions when they dissolve ( e . g . NaCl in water ); now a basic fact in the chemistry of ionic compounds .
1950 , a European nuclear physics laboratory , complete with cyclotron was proposed by Nobel Prize winner , Isidor I . Rabi , to UNESCO . In 1954 CERN was established and LHC research began 2010 .
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1922 death of Charles Laveran , French physician who discovered the parasite in red blood cells that causes human malaria . He did important work on other protozoan diseases and received a 1907 Nobel Prize .
1961 , President John F . Kennedy announced the goal of a US lunar landing . Eight years later , on 20 July 1969 , Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon .
1907 birth of Frank Whittle , English aviator and pioneer of jet propulsion , which he used to develop aircraft to fly faster speeds and higher altitudes than piston-engine propeller airplanes of the 1920s .
Physics Teachers Conference – UTS
1752 , Benjamin Franklin demonstrated lightning and electricity were related by flying a kite with a key attached .
2004 , a 50-yr study of 35,000 British doctors , was published in the British Medical Journal ; the first to quantify damage from smoking . Almost 1 / 2 of chronic smokers were killed by their habit & 1 / 4 died before age 70 .
Meet the Markers – Macquarie University
1676 , Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observed ‘ very little animalcules ’ with his handmade lenses ; the first accurate
1896 , the first radio patent was issued to Guglielmo Marconi in England for his wireless telegraphy apparatus .
1905 , Albert Einstein published his analysis of Max Planck ’ s quantum theory and its application to light . For these insights , Einstein earned a Nobel Prize .
1948 , first transistor displayed by its inventors , John Bardeen & Walter Brattain , at the Bell Telephone Laboratory ; leading to portable , transistor radios being sold to the public 1954 .
1990 , the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first photograph from space , an image of a double star 1,260 light years away .
NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK ( START )
MABO DAY ( INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS )
1943 , Laszlo Biro filed for a British patent on a practical ball point pen with quick-drying ink . Commercial production began in 1945 in Buenos Aires .
1950 , first kidney transplant operation was undertaken at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Chicago . It was only partly successful . 4 years later other transplants were succeeding .
Science dates compiled by Sue Siwinski