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Science on the 30th of November 1942 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1942 University of Oxford	science	University of Oxford (biology) The University of Oxford acquires the nearby Wytham Woods which become an important centre for research into ecology in England.	0
30 Nov 1942 Abraham Maslow	science	Abraham Maslow (psychology) Abraham Maslow proposes the Hierarchy of Needs theory of psychology in his paper "A Theory of Human Motivation".	0
30 Nov 1942 Leo Kanner	science	Leo Kanner (physiology and medic) Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital first adopts the term autism in its modern sense in English in referring to early infantile autism.	0
30 Nov 1942 Warren S. McCulloch	science	Warren S. McCulloch (physiology and medic) Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts publish "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" in Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, considered seminal in neural network theory.	0
30 Nov 1942 Willem J. Kolff	science	Willem J. Kolff (physiology and medic) Dr. Willem J. Kolff builds the first dialysis machine, in the occupied Netherlands.	0
30 Nov 1942 New Zealand	science	New Zealand (physiology and medic) New Zealand-born British anaesthetist Robert Reynolds Macintosh introduces his new curved laryngoscope blade for tracheal intubation.	0
30 Nov 1942 patent	science	patent (technology) Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan patent the refillable aerosol spray in the United States, for use with mosquito-repellant.	0
30 Nov 1942 Abraham Buschke	science	death Abraham Buschke Abraham Buschke (born 1868), German Jewish dermatologist (in Theresienstadt concentration camp).	0

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