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Science on the 30th of November 1932 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1932 Walter Baade	science	Walter Baade (astronomy) Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky invent the concept of the neutron star, a new type of celestial object, suggesting that supernovae might be created by the collapse of a normal star to form a neutron star.	0
30 Nov 1932 Arthur Eddington	science	Arthur Eddington (astronomy) Sir Arthur Eddington publishes The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900–1931 in Cambridge.	0
30 Nov 1932 Gilbert N. Lewis	science	Gilbert N. Lewis (chemistry) Gilbert N. Lewis isolates the first sample of pure heavy water by electrolysis.	0
30 Nov 1932 Andrey Kolmogorov	science	Andrey Kolmogorov (mathematics) Andrey Kolmogorov publishes Foundations of the Theory of Probability, laying the modern axiomatic foundations of probability theory.	0
30 Nov 1932 David Champernowne	science	David Champernowne (mathematics) David Champernowne, while still a Cambridge undergraduate, publishes his work on the Champernowne constant in real numbers.	0
30 Nov 1932 Stanley Skewes	science	Stanley Skewes (mathematics) Stanley Skewes discovers Skewes' number.	0
30 Nov 1932 Manfred Sakel	science	Manfred Sakel (medicine) Manfred Sakel begins to practice insulin shock therapy on psychiatric patients in Vienna.	0
30 Nov 1932 Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)	science	Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) (organizations) Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) first opens to the public, as part of the Century of Progress Exposition.	0
30 Nov 1932 Institute for Advanced Study	science	Institute for Advanced Study (organizations) The Institute for Advanced Study opens at Princeton, New Jersey, attracting Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel.	0

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