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Science on the 30th of November 1913 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1913 Sinope	science	Sinope (astronomy and space ) Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory.	0
30 Nov 1913 $refracting telescope$ refracting telescope	science	refracting telescope (astronomy and space ) A 76 cm refracting telescope is built at Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth largest refractor in the world.	0
30 Nov 1913 Robert Goddard	science	Robert Goddard (astronomy and space ) Robert Goddard begins building rockets.	0
30 Nov 1913 Walter Sydney Adams	science	Walter Sydney Adams (astronomy and space ) Walter Sydney Adams determines an incredibly high density for Sirius B.	0
30 Nov 1913 Julian Huxley	science	Julian Huxley (biology and medicine) Julian Huxley publishes The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe, a key text in ethology.	0
30 Nov 1913 John Joly	science	John Joly (biology and medicine) John Joly develops a method of extracting radium and applying it in radiotherapy.	0
30 Nov 1913 Edward Calvin Kendall	science	Edward Calvin Kendall (biology and medicine) Edward Calvin Kendall isolates thyroxine.	0
30 Nov 1913 Oxymorphone	science	Oxymorphone (biology and medicine) Oxymorphone, a powerful narcotic analgesic closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany.	0
30 Nov 1913 Pascoite	science	Pascoite (mineralogy) Pascoite is first described.	0
30 Nov 1913 Ernest Rutherford	science	Ernest Rutherford (physics) Ernest Rutherford suggests that the positively charged atomic nucleus contains protons.	0
30 Nov 1913 Kodak	science	Kodak (technology) Kodak introduce the Autographic system.	0
30 Nov 1913 Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova	science	death Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova, Russian chemist	0

29th November 1913 1st December 1913

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