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Science on the 30th of November 1893 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1893 GMT	science	GMT (astronomy) March 21 (23:00 GMT) – Syzygy: Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transit the Sun as seen from Saturn.	0
30 Nov 1893 Patrick Manson	science	Patrick Manson (biology) Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.	0
30 Nov 1893 Jean Pierre Mégnin	science	Jean Pierre Mégnin (biology) Jean Pierre Mégnin publishes La faune des cadavres application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale in Paris, an important text in forensic entomology.	0
30 Nov 1893 Argon	science	Argon (chemistry) Argon identified by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.	0
30 Nov 1893 Viscose	science	Viscose (chemistry) Viscose, a form of artificial silk or rayon, is patented by Charles Frederick Cross with Edward John Bevan and Clayton Beadle.	0
30 Nov 1893 United States	science	United States (psychology) Psychological Review established in the United States by James Mark Baldwin and James McKeen Cattell.	0
30 Nov 1893 locomotive	science	locomotive (technology) Construction of the first oil-engined rail locomotive, an experimental unit designed by William Dent Priestman and built by his company, Priestman Brothers of Hull, England.	0
30 Nov 1893 John Joly	science	John Joly (technology) John Joly of Dublin devises the Joly colour screen, an additive colour photographic process for producing images from a single photographic plate.	0
30 Nov 1893 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Edward Frankland	0
30 Nov 1893 Wollaston Medal	science	Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Karl von Zittel	0

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