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Science on the 30th of November 1919 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1919 Andrew Douglass	science	Andrew Douglass (biology) Andrew Douglass proposes dendrochronology dating.	0
30 Nov 1919 HIV	science	HIV (biology) The HIV pandemic almost certainly originates in Léopoldville, modern-day Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo.	0
30 Nov 1919 Newcomen Society	science	Newcomen Society (history of science a) Newcomen Society founded in the United Kingdom for the study of the history of engineering and technology.	0
30 Nov 1919 Frederick Banting	science	Frederick Banting (medicine) Frederick Banting and Charles Best co-discover insulin.	0
30 Nov 1919 Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt	science	Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (medicine) Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt first describes some of the symptoms of what will become known as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.	0
30 Nov 1919 Hydrocodone	science	Hydrocodone (medicine) Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine, is first synthesized in Germany by Carl Mannich and Helene Löwenheim.	0
30 Nov 1919 Milutin Milanković	science	Milutin Milanković (meteorology) Milutin Milanković proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity ("Milankovitch cycles").	0
30 Nov 1919 Megh Nad Saha	science	Megh Nad Saha (physics) Megh Nad Saha states his ionization equation.	0
30 Nov 1919 Albert Einstein	science	Albert Einstein (physics) Albert Einstein delivers his Leiden Lecture.	0
30 Nov 1919 Arthur Eddington	science	Arthur Eddington (physics) Publication of Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light" during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, confirming Einstein's theory of general relativity.	0
30 Nov 1919 Ernest Rutherford	science	Ernest Rutherford (physics) Ernest Rutherford predicts the existence of the neutron.	0
30 Nov 1919 James Jeans	science	James Jeans (physics) James Jeans discovers that the dynamical constants of motion determine the distribution function for a system of particles.	0
30 Nov 1919 Alan A. Griffith	science	Alan A. Griffith (physics) Publication of Alan A. Griffith's analysis of the process of brittle fracture.	0
30 Nov 1919 John B. Watson	science	John B. Watson (psychology) John B. Watson conducts the Little Albert experiment in classical conditioning.	0
30 Nov 1919 Prague	science	Prague Publication in Prague of Karel Čapek's drama R.U.R: Rossum's Universal Robots, introducing the word Robot to the world.	0

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