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Science on the 30th of November 1940 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1940 George Wells Beadle	science	George Wells Beadle (biology) George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum publish "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" which shows that specific genes code for specific proteins.	0
30 Nov 1940 John William Field	science	John William Field (biology) John William Field develops Field stain to detect malarial parasites.	0
30 Nov 1940 John Vincent Atanasoff	science	John Vincent Atanasoff (computer science) John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry develop the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.	0
30 Nov 1940 Charles Singer	science	Charles Singer (history of science) Charles Singer's A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century published in the U.K.	0
30 Nov 1940 Cahit Arf	science	Cahit Arf (mathematics) Cahit Arf defines the Arf invariant of a nonsingular quadratic form over a field of characteristic 2.	0
30 Nov 1940 New York	science	New York (medicine) The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics is first published in New York by Alfred Gilman and Louis S. Goodman, pharmacologists at the Yale School of Medicine.	0
30 Nov 1940 Karl Hugo Strunz	science	Karl Hugo Strunz (mineralogy) German mineralogist Karl Hugo Strunz's Mineralogische Tabellen introduces Nickel–Strunz classification of minerals.	0
30 Nov 1940 Vivian Pinn	science	birth Vivian Pinn Vivian Pinn, American physician.	0
30 Nov 1940 Dan Shechtman	science	birth Dan Shechtman Dan Shechtman, Israeli winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011).	0

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