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Science on the 30th of November 1889 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1889 Francis Galton	science	Francis Galton (biology) Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints.	0
30 Nov 1889 Jacques Loeb	science	Jacques Loeb (biology) Jacques Loeb publishes his first major work on tropism, Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.	0
30 Nov 1889 Henry Luke Bolley	science	Henry Luke Bolley (biology) Henry Luke Bolley at the new North Dakota Agricultural College isolates the organism responsible for potato scab and develops an effective treatment.	0
30 Nov 1889 Nikolai Menshutkin	science	Nikolai Menshutkin (chemistry) Nikolai Menshutkin discovers that a tertiary amine can be converted into a quaternary ammonium salt by reaction with an alkyl halide – the Menshutkin reaction.	0
30 Nov 1889 Emil Fischer	science	Emil Fischer (chemistry) Emil Fischer establishes the stereochemistry and isomeric nature of the sugars by epimerization between gluconic and mannonic acids and synthesizes glucose, fructose and mannose from glycerol.	0
30 Nov 1889 Boise, Idaho	science	Boise, Idaho (earth sciences) The United States city of Boise, Idaho, drills the first geothermal well.	0
30 Nov 1889 phosphate mineral	science	phosphate mineral (earth sciences) The phosphate mineral messelite (from Messel in Germany) is first described.	0
30 Nov 1889 Philippa Fawcett	science	Philippa Fawcett (mathematics) Philippa Fawcett is placed above the Senior Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge in England.	0
30 Nov 1889 P. J. Heawood	science	P. J. Heawood (mathematics) P. J. Heawood proves the five colour theorem.	0
30 Nov 1889 Giuseppe Peano	science	Giuseppe Peano (mathematics) Giuseppe Peano is the first to demonstrate a space-filling curve.	0
30 Nov 1889 Emil von Behring	science	Emil von Behring (medicine) Discovery by Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō that an anti-toxin for immunizing people against diphtheria can be prepared by injecting diphtheria toxin into animals.	0
30 Nov 1889 Curt Schimmelbusch	science	Curt Schimmelbusch (medicine) Curt Schimmelbusch invents the Schimmelbusch mask for the safe delivery of anesthetics to surgical patients.	0
30 Nov 1889 Santiago Ramón y Cajal	science	Santiago Ramón y Cajal (medicine) Santiago Ramón y Cajal publishes the first edition of Manual de Anatomia Pathologica General.	0
30 Nov 1889 Robert Koch	science	Robert Koch (medicine) Robert Koch publishes his postulates on the causal relationship between microbes and diseases.	0
30 Nov 1889 William James	science	William James (medicine) William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.	0
30 Nov 1889 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Simon Newcomb	0
30 Nov 1889 Wollaston Medal	science	Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Crawford Williamson	0

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