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Science on the 8th of November in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
08 Nov 1521 Juan Sebastián Elcano	science	Juan Sebastián Elcano (exploration) Magellan's expedition, now led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, arrives in the Maluku Islands.	0
08 Nov 1719 Michel Rolle	science	death Michel Rolle Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)	0
08 Nov 1848 Gottlob Frege	science	birth Gottlob Frege Gottlob Frege (died 1925), German mathematician.	0
08 Nov 1858 George Peacock	science	death George Peacock George Peacock (born 1791), English mathematician.	0
08 Nov 1868 Felix Hausdorff	science	birth Felix Hausdorff Felix Hausdorff (died 1942), mathematician.	0
08 Nov 1884 Hermann Rorschach	science	birth Hermann Rorschach Hermann Rorschach (died 1922), Swiss psychiatrist.	0
08 Nov 1887 Emile Berliner	science	Emile Berliner (technology) Emile Berliner is granted a U.S. patent for his Gramophone.	0
08 Nov 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen	science	Wilhelm Röntgen (physics) Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of electromagnetic radiation which he calls X-rays.	0
08 Nov 1899 New York Zoological Society	science	New York Zoological Society (biology) The New York Zoological Society opens the Bronx Zoological Park to the public in New York City under the direction of William Temple Hornaday.	0
08 Nov 1922 Christiaan Barnard	science	birth Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Barnard (died 2001), South African cardiac surgeon.	0
08 Nov 1923 Jack Kilby	science	birth Jack Kilby Jack Kilby (died 2005), American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.	0
08 Nov 1940 Arthur Vierendeel	science	death Arthur Vierendeel Arthur Vierendeel (born 1852), Belgian civil engineer.	0

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