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30 Nov 1936
![]() Jay Laurence Lush |
Jay Laurence Lush (biology) Jay Laurence Lush publishes the influential textbook Animal Breeding Plans in the United States. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Carlo Perrier |
Carlo Perrier (chemistry) Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè at the University of Palermo confirm discovery of the chemical element which will become known as Technetium. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() opioid |
opioid (chemistry) The opioid Methadone is synthesized in Germany by scientists working at Hoechst AG. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Claude Shannon |
Claude Shannon (computer science) Claude Shannon's Master's thesis at MIT demonstrates that electronic application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical numerical relationship. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Konrad Zuse |
Konrad Zuse (computer science) Konrad Zuse submits patents in Germany based on his Z1 computer design anticipating von Neumann architecture. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() British Graham Land Expedition |
British Graham Land Expedition (exploration) British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) concludes its work, having determined that Graham Land is an integral part of the Antarctic Peninsula and not an independent archipelago. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Bruno de Finetti |
Bruno de Finetti (mathematics) Bruno de Finetti publishes "La Prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives" in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, his most influential treatment of his theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Hans Freudenthal |
Hans Freudenthal (mathematics) Hans Freudenthal proves the Freudenthal suspension theorem in homotopy. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Amarro Fiamberti |
Amarro Fiamberti (medicine) Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital lobotomy. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() United Kingdom |
United Kingdom (medicine) Publication in the United Kingdom of Dr A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, promoting the cause of socialised medicine. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Eugene Wigner |
Eugene Wigner (physics) Eugene Wigner introduces the term isospin. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Alec Reeves |
Alec Reeves (technology) Alec Reeves invents pulse-code modulation. |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Copley Medal |
Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal – Henry Dale |
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30 Nov 1936
![]() Wollaston Medal for geology |
Wollaston Medal for geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for geology – Waldemar Lindgren |