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Science on the 30th of November 1921 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1921 H.J. Muller	science	H.J. Muller (biology) H.J. Muller sets out the basic properties of genetic heredity.	0
30 Nov 1921 Barbary lion	science	Barbary lion (biology) Last known wild Barbary lion (P. l. leo) shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.	0
30 Nov 1921 Vitamin E	science	Vitamin E (chemistry) Vitamin E is discovered by Herbert McLean Evans and Katharine Scott Bishop at the University of California, Berkeley.	0
30 Nov 1921 Czech	science	Czech (chemistry) Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovský invents polarographic methods of chemical analysis.	0
30 Nov 1921 German	science	German (chemistry) German chemist Hermann Staudinger proposes what he will come to call macromolecules.	0
30 Nov 1921 Bronisław Malinowski	science	Bronisław Malinowski (ethnology) Bronisław Malinowski's influential ethnological text Argonauts of the Western Pacific is published.	0
30 Nov 1921 Ludwig Wittgenstein	science	Ludwig Wittgenstein (mathematics) First publication of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in an English translation.	0
30 Nov 1921 Ernst Steinitz	science	Ernst Steinitz (mathematics) Ernst Steinitz proves Steinitz's theorem in polyhedral combinatorics.	0
30 Nov 1921 American Museum of Natural History	science	American Museum of Natural History (paleontology) First of four successive American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils of Indricotherium (a gigantic hornless rhinoceros then named "Baluchitherium"), Protoceratops, a nest of Protoceratops eggs (found in 1995 to be from Oviraptor), Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, none of which were known before.	0
30 Nov 1921 Arthur Compton	science	Arthur Compton (physics) Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons.	0
30 Nov 1921 Otto Stern	science	Otto Stern (physics) Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach show "space quantization".	0
30 Nov 1921 Hilding Faxén	science	Hilding Faxén (physics) Hilding Faxén introduces Faxén's law for the velocity of a sphere in fluid dynamics.	0
30 Nov 1921 Lancia Lambda	science	Lancia Lambda (technology) Lancia Lambda is the first automobile to use monocoque construction.	0
30 Nov 1921 Madeleine Vionnet	science	Madeleine Vionnet (technology) Madeleine Vionnet introduces the bias cut dress in Paris.	0

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