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30 Nov 1924
Extinction |
Extinction (biology) Extinction of the Bubal hartebeest in North Africa. |
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30 Nov 1924
Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection |
Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection (cartography) Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection published by American cartographer Oscar Sherman Adams. |
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30 Nov 1924
Museum of the History of Science |
Museum of the History of Science (history of science) Museum of the History of Science opens in the Old Ashmolean building in Oxford, set up by Robert Gunther based largely on the collection given by Dr Lewis Evans. |
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30 Nov 1924
Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel |
Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel (history of science) Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel established by donation of the collection of pharmacist Josef Anton Häfliger. |
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30 Nov 1924
Edwin Arthur Burtt |
Edwin Arthur Burtt (history of science) Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science is published. |
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30 Nov 1924
Werner Heisenberg |
Werner Heisenberg (physics) Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan set out the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics. |
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30 Nov 1924
1926 |
1926 (technology) late 1925 or early 1926 – Vladimir K. Zworykin demonstrates a cathode ray tube television system using Braun tubes at the Westinghouse Electric laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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30 Nov 1924
Sinclair Lewis |
Sinclair Lewis (other s) Sinclair Lewis's novel Arrowsmith is published in the United States, notable in having the culture of medical science as a principal theme. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1949
Dutch |
Dutch (astronomy and space ) Dutch astronomer Jan Oort postulates the existence of an orbiting cloud of planets (the Oort cloud) at the outermost edge of the Solar System. |
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30 Nov 1949
Melvin Calvin |
Melvin Calvin (biology) Melvin Calvin, James Bassham, and Andrew Benson at the University of California, Berkeley, discover the Calvin cycle in photosynthesis. |
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30 Nov 1949
Entomologist |
Entomologist (biology) Entomologist Willi Hennig publishes Grundzüge einer Theorie der phylogenetischen Systematik in East Germany, pioneering the study of cladistics. |
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30 Nov 1949
myxomatosis |
myxomatosis (biology) Full-scale release of myxomatosis for control of the Australian rabbit population. |
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30 Nov 1949
John Forbes Nash, Jr. |
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (mathematics) John Forbes Nash, Jr. proposes the Nash equilibrium in game theory, initially in his Princeton doctoral thesis. |
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30 Nov 1949
prisoner's dilemma |
prisoner's dilemma (mathematics) The prisoner's dilemma is framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher at RAND and formalized and named by Albert W. Tucker. |
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30 Nov 1949
Antihistamine |
Antihistamine (medicine) Antihistamine discovered. |
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30 Nov 1949
artificial pacemaker |
artificial pacemaker (medicine) An external artificial pacemaker is developed by John A. Hopps in conjunction with Wilfred Gordon Bigelow at Toronto General Hospital. |
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30 Nov 1949
John Ward |
John Ward (physics) John Ward derives the Ward–Takahashi identity in quantum field theory. |
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30 Nov 1949
Canadians |
Canadians (technology) Canadians Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen and Frank Plomp introduce the plastic bin bag for garbage collection. |
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30 Nov 1949
pager |
pager (technology) First practical pager, developed and manufactured by the Reevesound Company, is introduced for physicians in the New York City area. |
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30 Nov 1949
J. Z. Young |
J. Z. Young J. Z. Young delivers the BBC Reith Lectures on Doubt and Certainty in Science, introducing the radio audience to current developments in neurophysiology. |
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30 Nov 1949
Fields Prize in Mathematics |
Fields Prize in Mathematics (awards) Fields Prize in Mathematics (first postwar award): Laurent Schwartz and Atle Selberg |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1974
Chacoan Peccary |
Chacoan Peccary (biology) Living specimens of the Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri), previously known only from fossils, are identified in Paraguay. |
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30 Nov 1974
Benoit Mandelbrot |
Benoit Mandelbrot (mathematics) Benoit Mandelbrot coins the term fractal. |
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30 Nov 1974
Harada–Norton group |
Harada–Norton group (mathematics) The Harada–Norton group is discovered. |
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30 Nov 1974
Monty Hall problem |
Monty Hall problem (mathematics) The Monty Hall problem in probability is first posed, by Steve Selvin. |
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30 Nov 1974
Lyme disease |
Lyme disease (medicine) Lyme disease first recognised at Lyme, Connecticut. |
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30 Nov 1974
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon |
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| 25 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1999
Census of Marine Life |
Census of Marine Life (biology) 10-year Census of Marine Life launched. |
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Turing Award: Andrew Yao | |||
30 Nov 1999
Wollaston Medal for Geology |
Wollaston Medal for Geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Sefton Fyfe |
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| 20 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 2004
World Year of Physics |
World Year of Physics (physics) This has been named the World Year of Physics in honor of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis papers of 1905 and the resulting developments in the field of physics. Many institutions are celebrating by holding lecture series on Einstein, the history of special relativity and quantum mechanics and other public events surrounding the history of physics. |
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30 Nov 2004
Abel Prize in Mathematics |
Abel Prize in Mathematics (awards) Abel Prize in Mathematics: Peter David Lax |
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30 Nov 2004
Jorge E. Hirsch |
Jorge E. Hirsch (publications) Jorge E. Hirsch publishes his proposal for an h-index to quantify a scientist's publication productivity. |
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