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Science on the 30th of November 1917 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1917 Kiyotsugu Hirayama	science	Kiyotsugu Hirayama (astronomy) Kiyotsugu Hirayama identifies several groups of main belt asteroids, now known as Hirayama families.	0
30 Nov 1917 Harlow Shapley	science	Harlow Shapley (astronomy) Harlow Shapley demonstrates that globular clusters are arranged in a spheroid or halo whose center is not the Earth, but the center of the galaxy.	0
30 Nov 1917 Max Wolf	science	Max Wolf (astronomy) Max Wolf discovers the star Wolf 359.	0
30 Nov 1917 Heber Curtis	science	Heber Curtis (astronomy) Heber Curtis discovers a relativistic jet of matter emerging from Elliptical galaxy M87.	0
30 Nov 1917 R. A. Fisher	science	R. A. Fisher (biology) R. A. Fisher puts forward a genetic model that shows that continuous variation could be the result of Mendelian inheritance in his paper "The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance".	0
30 Nov 1917 J. Henri Fabre	science	J. Henri Fabre (biology) J. Henri Fabre's The Sacred Beetle, and others published in English.	0
30 Nov 1917 Jacques Loeb	science	Jacques Loeb (biology) Jacques Loeb's Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct published in the United States.	0
30 Nov 1917 Edward Hugh Hebern	science	Edward Hugh Hebern (cryptography) Edward Hugh Hebern patents the Hebern rotor machine.	0
30 Nov 1917 Technisches Museum Wien	science	Technisches Museum Wien (history of science) Technisches Museum Wien opens in Vienna.	0
30 Nov 1917 Felix Hausdorff	science	Felix Hausdorff (mathematics) Felix Hausdorff introduces the concept of the fractional Hausdorff dimension.	0
30 Nov 1917 Gaston Julia	science	Gaston Julia (mathematics) Gaston Julia describes the iteration of a rational function.	0
30 Nov 1917 Josef Lense	science	Josef Lense (physics) Josef Lense and Hans Thirring find the gravitomagnetic precession of gyroscopes in the equations of general relativity.	0
30 Nov 1917 Hans Reissner	science	Hans Reissner (physics) Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström solve the Einstein and Maxwell field equations for charged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems.	0
30 Nov 1917 Friedrich Kottler	science	Friedrich Kottler (physics) Friedrich Kottler gets Schwarzschild solution without Einstein vacuum field equations.	0
30 Nov 1917 Hartog Jacob Hamburger	science	Hartog Jacob Hamburger (physiology and medic) Hartog Jacob Hamburger describes the chloride shift.	0
30 Nov 1917 Edwin Armstrong	science	Edwin Armstrong (technology) Edwin Armstrong invents the superheterodyne receiver.	0
30 Nov 1917 Theodore von Karman	science	Theodore von Karman (technology) Theodore von Karman and Asbóth Oszkár build the first co-axial helicopter.	0
30 Nov 1917 A. M. Nicolson	science	A. M. Nicolson (technology) A. M. Nicolson invents the radio crystal oscillator	0
30 Nov 1917 Charles Strite	science	Charles Strite (technology) Charles Strite invents the pop-up toaster.	0

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