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Science on the 30th of November 1927 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1927 American	science	American (anthropology) American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa, "a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization".	0
30 Nov 1927 Canaanite	science	Canaanite (archaeology) The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.	0
30 Nov 1927 Florian Cajori	science	Florian Cajori (history of science) Florian Cajori begins publication of A History of Mathematical Notations.	0
30 Nov 1927 David Hilbert	science	David Hilbert (mathematics) David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann publish Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik, a pioneering elementary text in first-order logic stating the Entscheidungsproblem.	0
30 Nov 1927 John von Neumann	science	John von Neumann (mathematics) John von Neumann publishes Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele, a text in game theory.	0
30 Nov 1927 Harrison Stanford Martland	science	Harrison Stanford Martland (medicine) Dementia pugilistica is first described by forensic pathologist Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, chief medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey.	0
30 Nov 1927 Paul Dirac	science	Paul Dirac (physics) Paul Dirac proposes the Dirac equation as a relativistic equation of motion for the wavefunction of the electron, leading him to predict the existence of the positron, the electron's antiparticle.	0
30 Nov 1927 Arthur Eddington	science	Arthur Eddington (publications) Arthur Eddington publishes the popular text The Nature of the Physical World in the United Kingdom, including a statement of the infinite monkey theorem.	0

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