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Science on the 30th of November 1937 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1937 virus	science	virus (biology) Bawden and Pirie publish the first crystal of a spherical virus, Tomato bushy stunt virus.	0
30 Nov 1937 Melamine	science	Melamine (chemistry) Melamine thermosetting resin is developed by American Cyanamid.	0
30 Nov 1937 Konrad Zuse	science	Konrad Zuse (computer science) Konrad Zuse in Berlin completes his Z1 computer, a floating point binary mechanical calculator with limited programmability, using Boolean logic and reading instructions from perforated 35 mm film.	0
30 Nov 1937 Albert Einstein	science	Albert Einstein (history of science) Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld publish The Evolution of Physics.	0
30 Nov 1937 Frank Benford	science	Frank Benford (mathematics) Frank Benford restates the law of distribution of first digits.	0
30 Nov 1937 Alan Turing	science	Alan Turing (mathematics) Alan Turing completes his Ph.D. thesis, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals, at Princeton University; it is presented to the London Mathematical Society on June 16.	0
30 Nov 1937 Dorothy Hansine Andersen	science	Dorothy Hansine Andersen (medicine) Dorothy Hansine Andersen describes the characteristic cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and correlates it with the celiac, respiratory and intestinal diseases prominent in the condition, also first hypothesizing that cystic fibrosis is a recessive disorder.	0
30 Nov 1937 Hans Asperger	science	Hans Asperger (medicine) Hans Asperger first adopts the term autism in its modern sense in referring to autistic psychopaths in a lecture (in German) on child psychology.	0
30 Nov 1937 Ugo Cerletti	science	Ugo Cerletti (medicine) Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini discover electroconvulsive therapy.	0
30 Nov 1937 Herbert E. Ives	science	Herbert E. Ives (physics) Herbert E. Ives and G. R. Stilwell execute the Ives–Stilwell experiment, showing that ions radiate at frequencies affected by their motion.	0
30 Nov 1937 Nuclear magnetic resonance	science	Nuclear magnetic resonance (physics) Nuclear magnetic resonance is first described and measured in molecular beams by Isidor Rabi.	0
30 Nov 1937 Vlasov equation	science	Vlasov equation (physics) The Vlasov equation is first proposed for description of plasma by Anatoly Vlasov.	0
30 Nov 1937 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Niels Bohr	0
30 Nov 1937 Wollaston Medal for geology	science	Wollaston Medal for geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for geology: Maurice Lugeon	0

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