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Science on the 30th of November 1891 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1891 William Ramsay	science	William Ramsay (chemistry) William Ramsay discovers argon.	0
30 Nov 1891 Ellen Swallow Richards	science	Ellen Swallow Richards (environment) American environmental chemist Ellen Swallow Richards, in a lecture in Boston, calls for the "christening of a new science" – oekology, to embrace environmental education and consumer nutrition.	0
30 Nov 1891 Boulton and Watt	science	Boulton and Watt (history of science) Boulton and Watt's 1779 Smethwick Engine is moved to the Birmingham Canal Navigations Ocker Hill depot in England for preservation.	0
30 Nov 1891 Georg Cantor	science	Georg Cantor (mathematics) Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers.	0
30 Nov 1891 Gino Fano	science	Gino Fano (mathematics) Gino Fano discovers the Fano plane.	0
30 Nov 1891 German	science	German (medicine) German pathologist Curt Schimmelbusch proposes that medical dressings should be sterilized daily prior to surgery and designs a form of autoclave to facilitate this.	0
30 Nov 1891 Czech	science	Czech (medicine) Czech neurologist Arnold Pick identifies the clinical syndrome of Pick's disease and the Pick bodies that characterise the frontotemporal lobe disorder.	0
30 Nov 1891 Sjögren’s syndrome	science	Sjögren’s syndrome (medicine) Johann von Mikulicz-Radecki first describes Sjögren’s syndrome.	0
30 Nov 1891 William Osler	science	William Osler (medicine) First edition of William Osler's textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine is published in Edinburgh while the author is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. It remains internationally significant in medical education for forty years.	0
30 Nov 1891 François Hennebique	science	François Hennebique (technology) François Hennebique patents his system of reinforced concrete.	0
30 Nov 1891 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Rudolf Virchow	0
30 Nov 1891 Wollaston Medal for geology	science	Wollaston Medal for geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for geology: Ferdinand von Richthofen	0

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