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Science on the 30th of November 1887 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1887 International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry	science	International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry, in Glasgow, Scotland	0
30 Nov 1887 Nice Observatory	science	Nice Observatory (astronomy) The 76 cm refracting telescope is completed at Nice Observatory.	0
30 Nov 1887 John Louis Emil Dreyer	science	John Louis Emil Dreyer (astronomy) John Louis Emil Dreyer's New General Catalogue is published.	0
30 Nov 1887 Marine Biological Laboratory	science	Marine Biological Laboratory (biology) Seventeen biologists found the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, which will become a major center of applied research.	0
30 Nov 1887 Peter Hermann Stillmark	science	Peter Hermann Stillmark (biology) Peter Hermann Stillmark describes the isolation of ricin, thus founding the field of lectinology.	0
30 Nov 1887 Methyl isocyanate	science	Methyl isocyanate (chemistry) Methyl isocyanate is discovered.	0
30 Nov 1887 Henri-Louis Le Chatelier	science	Henri-Louis Le Chatelier (chemistry) Henri-Louis Le Chatelier states that the response of a chemical system perturbed from equilibrium will be to counteract the perturbation.	0
30 Nov 1887 Emil Fischer	science	Emil Fischer (chemistry) Emil Fischer establishes the relation between glucose, fructose and mannose by passage to a common osazone.	0
30 Nov 1887 American Mathematical Society	science	American Mathematical Society (mathematics) The American Mathematical Society is founded by Thomas Fiske.	0
30 Nov 1887 Hilbert's basis theorem	science	Hilbert's basis theorem (mathematics) Hilbert's basis theorem is first proved by David Hilbert.	0
30 Nov 1887 Francis Galton	science	Francis Galton (mathematics) Francis Galton introduces the concept of correlation in statistics.	0
30 Nov 1887 Richard Dedekind	science	Richard Dedekind (mathematics) Richard Dedekind publishes Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? ("What are numbers and what should they be?") which includes his definition of an infinite set.	0
30 Nov 1887 Sofia Kovalevskaya	science	Sofia Kovalevskaya (mathematics) Sofia Kovalevskaya discovers the 'Kovalevskaya Top'.	0
30 Nov 1887 1883	science	1883 (meteorology) The global atmospheric temperature returns to normal, five years after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Krakatau). The volcanic dust veil, that has created spectacular atmospheric effects, also acted as a solar-radiation filter, lowering global temperatures by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year after the eruption.	0
30 Nov 1887 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	science	Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (physics) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovers radio waves.	0
30 Nov 1887 Giovanni Martinotti	science	Giovanni Martinotti (physiology and medic) Giovanni Martinotti describes cortical cells later known as Martinotti cells.	0
30 Nov 1887 Emile Roux	science	Emile Roux (physiology and medic) Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolate diphtheria toxin.	0
30 Nov 1887 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Thomas Henry Huxley	0
30 Nov 1887 Wollaston Medal	science	Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry Benedict Medlicott	0

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