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Science on the 30th of November 1908 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1908 Comet Halley	science	Comet Halley (astronomy) Comet Halley first becomes visible on a photographic plate.	0
30 Nov 1908 Fritz Haber	science	Fritz Haber (chemistry) Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch first demonstrate the Haber process, the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high temperature and pressure.	0
30 Nov 1908 p[H]	science	p[H] (chemistry) The concept of p[H] as a measure of the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution is introduced by Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen at the Carlsberg Laboratory.	0
30 Nov 1908 L. E. J. Brouwer	science	L. E. J. Brouwer (mathematics) L. E. J. Brouwer makes a proof of the Brouwer fixed point theorem.	0
30 Nov 1908 Brazilian	science	Brazilian (medicine) Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas first describes Chagas disease.	0
30 Nov 1908 psychology	science	psychology (medicine) In psychology, Edward B. Titchener makes the first published coinage of the term Empathy as a translation of the German Einfühlungsvermögen.	0
30 Nov 1908 dinosaur	science	dinosaur (paleontology) Excavation of the dinosaur bone beds at what will become Dinosaur National Monument in the Uinta Mountains of the United States by paleontologist Earl Douglass working for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.	0
30 Nov 1908 Albert Einstein	science	Albert Einstein (physics) Albert Einstein together with Marcel Grossmann starts to develop a theory which would bind metric tensor g_ik, which defines a space geometry, with a source of gravity, that is with mass.	0
30 Nov 1908 Hans Geiger	science	Hans Geiger (physics) Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden discover large angle deflections of alpha particles by thin metal foils.	0
30 Nov 1908 Ernest Rutherford	science	Ernest Rutherford (physics) Ernest Rutherford and Thomas Royds demonstrate that alpha particles are doubly ionized helium atoms.	0
30 Nov 1908 Einar Dessau	science	Einar Dessau (technology) Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first radio broadcaster.	0
30 Nov 1908 Kinemacolor	science	Kinemacolor (technology) Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented.	0
30 Nov 1908 Clare Island Survey	science	Clare Island Survey Commencement of fieldwork for the multidisciplinary Clare Island Survey (Ireland), under the direction of Robert Lloyd Praeger.	0

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