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30 Nov 1906
Emil Fischer |
Emil Fischer (chemistry) Emil Fischer artificially synthesizes peptide amino acid chains and thereby shows that amino acids in proteins are connected by amino group-acid group bonds. |
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30 Nov 1906
Hermann Staudinger |
Hermann Staudinger (chemistry) Hermann Staudinger prepares the first synthetic β-lactam. |
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30 Nov 1906
Georges Urbain |
Georges Urbain (chemistry) Georges Urbain discovers Lutetium (from Lutetia, the ancient name of Paris). |
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30 Nov 1906
Bertram Boltwood |
Bertram Boltwood (geology) Bertram Boltwood proposes that the amount of lead in uranium and thorium ores might be used to determine the Earth's age and crudely dates some rocks to have ages between 410—2200 million years. |
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30 Nov 1906
Moine Thrust Belt |
Moine Thrust Belt (geology) The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified by Ben Peach and John Horne, one of the first to be discovered. |
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30 Nov 1906
phosphate mineral |
phosphate mineral (geology) The rare phosphate mineral tarbuttite is first discovered at Broken Hill, Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia. |
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30 Nov 1906
Paul Koebe |
Paul Koebe (mathematics) Paul Koebe conjectures the result of the Koebe quarter theorem. |
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30 Nov 1906
Reuben Ottenberg |
Reuben Ottenberg (medicine) Reuben Ottenberg performs the first successful human blood transfusion using blood typing and cross-matching at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. |
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30 Nov 1906
Paul Ehrlich |
Paul Ehrlich (medicine) Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness. |
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30 Nov 1906
George Soper |
George Soper (medicine) George Soper identifies "Typhoid Mary" Mallon as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid in New York. |
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30 Nov 1906
Dengue fever |
Dengue fever (medicine) Dengue fever becomes the second disease shown to be caused by a virus. |
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30 Nov 1906
Albert Einstein |
Albert Einstein (physics) Albert Einstein introduces the principle of equivalence of gravitation and inertia and uses it to predict the gravitational redshift. |
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30 Nov 1906
Ivan Pavlov |
Ivan Pavlov (psychology) Ivan Pavlov demonstrates conditioned responses with salivating dogs. |
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30 Nov 1906
Vladimir Bekhterev |
Vladimir Bekhterev (psychology) Vladimir Bekhterev begins publication of Objective Psychology. |
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30 Nov 1906
Lee DeForest |
Lee DeForest (technology) Lee DeForest invents the triode thermionic amplifier, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology. |
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30 Nov 1906
Sweden |
Sweden (technology) Furuholmen Lighthouse in Sweden is the world's first to be equipped with AGA's Dalén light incorporating Gustaf Dalén's invention of the sun valve which turns the beacon's accumulator gas supply on and off using daylight, and for which Dalén will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912. |
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30 Nov 1906
Autochrome Lumière |
Autochrome Lumière (technology) The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed. |
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30 Nov 1906
patents |
patents (technology) Samuel Simon patents a screenprinting process in the United Kingdom. |
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30 Nov 1906
Peking to Paris |
Peking to Paris (technology) Peking to Paris motor race, won by Prince Scipione Borghese driving a 7 litre 35/45 hp Itala. |
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30 Nov 1906
Carl Hagenbeck |
Carl Hagenbeck (zoology) Carl Hagenbeck opens the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Stellingen, near Hamburg, Germany, the first zoo to use open moated enclosures, rather than barred cages, to better approximate animals' natural environments. |
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30 Nov 1906
Order of Merit |
Order of Merit (awards) Order of Merit: Florence Nightingale |
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30 Nov 1906
Nikolai Menshutkin |
death Nikolai Menshutkin Nikolai Menshutkin (born 1842), chemist. |
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