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30 Nov 1951
![]() Rosalind Pitt-Rivers |
Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (biology) Biochemists Jack Gross and Rosalind Pitt-Rivers discover the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() Braeburn |
Braeburn (biology) The Braeburn apple cultivar is discovered as a chance seedling in New Zealand. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() Soviet |
Soviet (chemistry) Soviet scientists L. V. Radushkevich and V. M. Lukyanovich publish images of carbon nanotubes. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() autocode |
autocode (computer science) The first autocode and its compiler are developed by Alick Glennie for the Manchester Mark 1 computer, considered as the first working high-level compiled programming language. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() Derek J. de Solla Price |
Derek J. de Solla Price (history of science) Discovery by Derek J. de Solla Price of a lost medieval scientific work entitled Equatorie of the Planetis, initially attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() John Forbes Nash, Jr. |
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (mathematics) John Forbes Nash, Jr. produces groundbreaking work in the area of real algebraic geometry. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() Bradley–Terry model |
Bradley–Terry model (mathematics) The Bradley–Terry model in probability theory is presented. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() anesthesiologist |
anesthesiologist (medicine) American obstetrical anesthesiologist Dr. Virginia Apgar devizes the Apgar score as a simple replicable method of quickly and summarily assessing the health of babies immediately after childbirth. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() antidepressant |
antidepressant (medicine) Jean Delay, head of psychiatry at Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris, with Jean-François Buisson, reports the antidepressant effect of isoniazid. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() Geoffrey Dummer |
Geoffrey Dummer (physics) Geoffrey Dummer proposes the integrated circuit. |
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30 Nov 1951
![]() Simon P. Norton |
birth Simon P. Norton Simon P. Norton, English mathematician |