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Science on the 12th of November in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
12 Nov 1595 John Hawkins	science	death John Hawkins Sir John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532) (at sea).	0
12 Nov 1757 Robert Willan	science	birth Robert Willan Robert Willan, English dermatologist (died 1812)	0
12 Nov 1833 Leonid meteor shower	science	Leonid meteor shower (astronomy) A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over Alabama.	0
12 Nov 1842 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	science	birth John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (died 1919), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.	0
12 Nov 1902 William Henry Barlow	science	death William Henry Barlow William Henry Barlow (born 1812), railway civil engineer.	0
12 Nov 1906 Deutsches Museum	science	Deutsches Museum First displays of the Deutsches Museum open to the public in Munich.	0
12 Nov 1927 Yutaka Taniyama	science	birth Yutaka Taniyama Yutaka Taniyama (suicide 1958), Japanese mathematician	0
12 Nov 1932 Dugald Clerk	science	death Dugald Clerk Sir Dugald Clerk (born 1854), Scottish-born mechanical engineer.	0
12 Nov 1969 William F. Friedman	science	death William F. Friedman William F. Friedman (born 1891), Russian American cryptanalyst.	0
12 Nov 1980 Voyager program	science	Voyager program (astronomy and space ) Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles (124,000 km) of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.	0
12 Nov 1990 Tim Berners-Lee	science	Tim Berners-Lee (computer science) Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web.	0
12 Nov 2002 Grigori Perelman	science	Grigori Perelman (mathematics) Grigori Perelman posts the first of a series of eprints to the arXiv, in which he proves the century old Poincaré conjecture.	0

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