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Science on the 30th of January in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Jan 1708 Georg Dionysius Ehret	science	birth Georg Dionysius Ehret Georg Dionysius Ehret (died 1770), German artist, botanist and entomologist.	0
30 Jan 1781 Adelbert von Chamisso	science	birth Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso, poet and botanist (died 1838)	0
30 Jan 1790 Henry Greathead	science	Henry Greathead (technology) Henry Greathead's Original rescue life-boat is tested on the River Tyne in England.	0
30 Jan 1820 Irish	science	Irish (exploration) Antarctica is sighted for the second time by Irish Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield.	0
30 Jan 1826 Menai Suspension Bridge	science	Menai Suspension Bridge (technology) The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.	0
30 Jan 1844 Charles Goodyear	science	Charles Goodyear (technology) Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanisation of rubber in the United States.	0
30 Jan 1846 Joseph Carpue	science	death Joseph Carpue Joseph Carpue (born 1764) English surgeon.	0
30 Jan 1868 Charles Darwin	science	Charles Darwin (biology) Publication of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (by John Murray in London), including his theory of heredity, which he calls pangenesis.	0
30 Jan 1898 Belgian Antarctic Expedition	science	Belgian Antarctic Expedition (exploration) February 13 – The Belgian Antarctic Expedition led by Adrien de Gerlache on the Belgica discovers the Gerlache Strait (originally named the Belgica Strait) and Lemaire Channel off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. The expedition then becomes the first to winter in Antarctica.	0
30 Jan 1912 Werner Hartmann	science	birth Werner Hartmann Werner Hartmann (died 1988), German physicist.	0
30 Jan 1925 Douglas Engelbart	science	birth Douglas Engelbart Douglas Engelbart (died 2013), American pioneer in human–computer interaction.	0
30 Jan 1930 Pavel Molchanov	science	Pavel Molchanov (atmospheric sciences) Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Pavlovsk in the Soviet Union.	0
30 Jan 1948 Orville Wright	science	death Orville Wright Orville Wright (born 1871), American pioneer aviator.	0
30 Jan 1982 computer virus	science	computer virus (computer science) First computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year-old Rich Skrenta, is found in the wild. It infects Apple II computers via floppy disk.	0
30 Jan 1991 John Bardeen	science	death John Bardeen John Bardeen (b. 1908), American physicist, co-inventor of the transistor and twice winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.	0
30 Jan 1995 National Institutes of Health	science	National Institutes of Health (medicine) Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia.	0
30 Jan 1995 Gerald Durrell	science	death Gerald Durrell Gerald Durrell (b. 1925), British wildlife conservationist.	0

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