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Science on the 30th of November 1897 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1897 Narmer Palette	science	Narmer Palette (archaeology) The Narmer Palette is discovered in Hierakonpolis, Egypt.	0
30 Nov 1897 Annie Scott Dill Maunder	science	Annie Scott Dill Maunder (astronomy) Annie Scott Dill Maunder photographs the sun's outer corona during a solar eclipse in India.	0
30 Nov 1897 433 Eros	science	433 Eros (astronomy) 433 Eros, the first near-Earth object, is discovered.	0
30 Nov 1897 George Darwin	science	George Darwin (astronomy) George Darwin proposes that the Earth and Moon had once been one body.	0
30 Nov 1897 William Ramsay	science	William Ramsay (chemistry) William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover Neon,Krypton (May 30) and Xenon (July 12).	0
30 Nov 1897 Emil Fischer	science	Emil Fischer (chemistry) Emil Fischer synthesizes purine.	0
30 Nov 1897 Richard Willstätter	science	Richard Willstätter (chemistry) Richard Willstätter analyzes the structure of the cocaine molecule in a synthesis derived from tropinone.	0
30 Nov 1897 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz	science	Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (mathematics) Ladislaus Bortkiewicz publishes a book about the Poisson distribution, The Law of Small Numbers, first noting that events with low frequency in a large population follow a Poisson distribution even when the probabilities of the events vary.	0
30 Nov 1897 Peter Borovsky	science	Peter Borovsky (medicine) Peter Borovsky, a Russian military surgeon working in Tashkent, publishes the first accurate description of the causative parasite for "Sart sore" (later known as leishmaniasis).	0
30 Nov 1897 Patrick Manson	science	Patrick Manson (medicine) Patrick Manson publishes Tropical Diseases: a manual of the diseases of warm climates in London, a pioneering English language textbook in tropical medicine.	0
30 Nov 1897 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: William Huggins	0
30 Nov 1897 Wollaston Medal	science	Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Ferdinand Zirkel	0

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