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Science on the 17th of November in history

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Date	Type	Text
17 Nov 1645 Nicolas Lemery	science	birth Nicolas Lemery Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (died 1715)	0
17 Nov 1685 Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye	science	birth Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French Canadian explorer (died 1749)	0
17 Nov 1776 James Ferguson	science	death James Ferguson James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (born 1710)	0
17 Nov 1790 August Ferdinand Möbius	science	birth August Ferdinand Möbius August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (died 1868)	0
17 Nov 1820 United States	science	United States (exploration) Antarctica is sighted for the third time by United States seal hunter Nathaniel Palmer.	0
17 Nov 1855 David Livingstone	science	David Livingstone (exploration) Dr David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls.	0
17 Nov 1871 George Biddell Airy	science	George Biddell Airy (physics) George Biddell Airy presents his discovery that astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.	0
17 Nov 1929 Herman Hollerith	science	death Herman Hollerith Herman Hollerith (born 1860), American statistician, punched card data processing inventor.	0
17 Nov 1940 Raymond Pearl	science	death Raymond Pearl Raymond Pearl (born 1879), American biologist.	0
17 Nov 1947 John Bardeen	science	John Bardeen (technology) December 23 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley at AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States demonstrate the transistor effect.	0
17 Nov 1958 Yutaka Taniyama	science	death Yutaka Taniyama Yutaka Taniyama (born 1927), Japanese mathematician (suicide)	0
17 Nov 1970 Luna program	science	Luna program (astronomy and space ) Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.	0
17 Nov 1970 Douglas Engelbart	science	Douglas Engelbart (computer science) Douglas Engelbart receives a United States patent for the first computer mouse.	0
17 Nov 1981 Sibyl M. Rock	science	death Sibyl M. Rock Sibyl M. Rock (b. 1909), American mathematician.	0

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