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30 Nov 1907
![]() Neanderthal |
Neanderthal (archaeology) A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France by Otto Hauser. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() mean solar time |
mean solar time (astronomy) If its start and end are defined using mean solar time then due to the extreme length of day variation this is the longest year of the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time). |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() O.S. |
O.S. (astronomy) June 30 [O.S. June 17] – Tunguska event in Siberia, an explosion believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Kikunae Ikeda |
Kikunae Ikeda (chemistry) Kikunae Ikeda discovers monosodium glutamate, the chemical behind the taste of umami. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (chemistry) Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() G. H. Hardy |
G. H. Hardy (genetics) G. H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg independently formulate the Hardy–Weinberg principle which states that both allele and genotype frequencies in a population remain in equilibrium unless disturbed. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Ulugh Beg Observatory |
Ulugh Beg Observatory (history of science) Site of Ulugh Beg Observatory located in Samarkand by Russian archaeologist V. L. Vyatkin. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() National Technical Museum (Prague) |
National Technical Museum (Prague) (history of science) National Technical Museum (Prague) founded. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Ernst Zermelo |
Ernst Zermelo (mathematics) Ernst Zermelo axiomizes set theory, thus avoiding Cantor's contradictions. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Josip Plemelj |
Josip Plemelj (mathematics) Josip Plemelj solves the Riemann problem about the existence of a differential equation with a given monodromic group and uses Sokhotsky-Plemelj formulae. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Student's t-distribution |
Student's t-distribution (mathematics) Student's t-distribution published by William Sealy Gosset (anonymously). |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Swiss |
Swiss (medicine) Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler introduces the term schizophrenia. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Austrian American |
Austrian American (medicine) Austrian American pathologist Leo Buerger gives the first accurate pathological description of Thromboangiitis obliterans ("Buerger's disease") at Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan). |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Victor Horsley |
Victor Horsley (medicine) Victor Horsley and R. Clarke invents the stereotactic method. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Hans Geiger |
Hans Geiger (physics) Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger counter. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Gustav Mie |
Gustav Mie (physics) Gustav Mie publishes the Mie solution to Maxwell's equations on the scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a sphere. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() radio |
radio (technology) A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. |
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30 Nov 1907
![]() Henry Ford |
Henry Ford (technology) Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing and produces the first Model T automobile. |