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Science on the 30th of November 1914 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1914 Einstein's	science	Einstein's (astronomy) Einstein's new theory of general relativity is used to explain Mercury's strange motions that baffled Urbain Le Verrier.	0
30 Nov 1914 Robert Innes	science	Robert Innes (astronomy) Robert Innes discovers Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth after the Sun.	0
30 Nov 1914 Alfred Wegener	science	Alfred Wegener (earth sciences) Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea, which he calls Urkontinent.	0
30 Nov 1914 pandemic	science	pandemic (life sciences) A global pandemic of encephalitis lethargica begins.	0
30 Nov 1914 Walter Bradford Cannon	science	Walter Bradford Cannon (life sciences) Walter Bradford Cannon coins the term fight or flight to describe an animal's response to threats.	0
30 Nov 1914 Thomas Hunt Morgan	science	Thomas Hunt Morgan (life sciences) Thomas Hunt Morgan, demonstrates non-inherited genetic mutation (in Drosophila melanogaster), undermining the conceptual basis of eugenics.	0
30 Nov 1914 Reginald Punnett	science	Reginald Punnett (life sciences) Reginald Punnett's Mimicry in Butterflies is published in Cambridge (U.K.)	0
30 Nov 1914 Clara H. Hasse	science	Clara H. Hasse (life sciences) Clara H. Hasse publishes a paper identifying the cause of citrus canker which leads to the development of methods for controlling the disease, saving the citrus crops in the southern United States from being wiped out.	0
30 Nov 1914 Emmy Noether	science	Emmy Noether (mathematics) Emmy Noether proves her theorem that any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.	0
30 Nov 1914 Wacław Sierpiński	science	Wacław Sierpiński (mathematics) Wacław Sierpiński describes the Sierpinski triangle.	0
30 Nov 1914 Arnold Sommerfeld	science	Arnold Sommerfeld (physics) Arnold Sommerfeld develops a modified Bohr atomic model with elliptic orbits to explain relativistic fine structure.	0
30 Nov 1914 Danish	science	Danish (psychology) Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin publishes Synsoplevede Figurer ("Visual Figures") introducing the optical illusion which becomes known as the Rubin vase.	0
30 Nov 1914 William Mills	science	William Mills (technology) William Mills patents, develops and manufactures the Mills bomb, a hand grenade, at the Mills Munition Factory in Birmingham, England.	0
30 Nov 1914 Solomon Negrine	science	birth Solomon Negrine June 14 - Solomon Negrine (Turns 100 soon). Bit of a legend	0

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