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Science on the 30th of November 1899 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1899 Johannes Rydberg	science	Johannes Rydberg (chemistry) Johannes Rydberg refines the expression for observed hydrogen line wavelengths.	0
30 Nov 1899 Richard Dixon Oldham	science	Richard Dixon Oldham (earth sciences) Richard Dixon Oldham distinguishes between primary, secondary and tertiary waveforms as recorded by seismometers.	0
30 Nov 1899 American	science	American (exploration) American explorer Robert Peary first sights Kaffeklubben Island, the northernmost point of land on Earth.	0
30 Nov 1899 Hugo de Vries	science	Hugo de Vries (genetics) Hugo de Vries publishes the results of his experiments in Mendelian inheritance.	0
30 Nov 1899 David Hilbert	science	David Hilbert (mathematics) David Hilbert states his list of 23 problems which show where some further mathematical work is needed.	0
30 Nov 1899 Russell's paradox	science	Russell's paradox (mathematics) Russell's paradox is first discovered by Ernst Zermelo but he does not publish it, and it is known only to Hilbert, Husserl and other members of the University of Göttingen.	0
30 Nov 1899 Gaston Tarry	science	Gaston Tarry (mathematics) Gaston Tarry confirms Euler's conjecture that no 6×6 orthogonal Graeco-Latin square is possible.	0
30 Nov 1899 Alfred Young	science	Alfred Young (mathematics) Alfred Young introduces the Young tableau.	0
30 Nov 1899 Kodak	science	Kodak (photography) Kodak introduce their first Brownie (camera).	0
30 Nov 1899 Gamma rays	science	Gamma rays (physics) Gamma rays discovered by Paul Villard while studying uranium decay.	0
30 Nov 1899 Karl Landsteiner	science	Karl Landsteiner (physiology) Karl Landsteiner makes the first discovery of blood types, identifying the ABO blood group system.	0
30 Nov 1899 Jokichi Takamine	science	Jokichi Takamine (physiology) Jokichi Takamine and Keizo Uenaka discover adrenaline.	0
30 Nov 1899 Sigmund Freud	science	Sigmund Freud (psychology) Sigmund Freud's Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) is published.	0
30 Nov 1899 Richard J. Ussher	science	Richard J. Ussher (zoology) Richard J. Ussher and Robert Warren publish The Birds of Ireland.	0
30 Nov 1899 Ernest Gibbins	science	birth Ernest Gibbins Ernest Gibbins (killed 1942), entomologist.	0

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