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Science on the 30th of November 1953 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1953 Daniel I. Arnon	science	Daniel I. Arnon (biology) Daniel I. Arnon demonstrates in the laboratory the chemical function of photosynthesis in chloroplasts.	0
30 Nov 1953 Eduard Paul Tratz	science	Eduard Paul Tratz (biology) Eduard Paul Tratz and Heinz Heck propose the species name Bonobo for what was previously known as the pygmy chimpanzee.	0
30 Nov 1953 vitamin B12	science	vitamin B12 (chemistry) Publication of the first analysis of the three-dimensional molecular structure of vitamin B₁₂ by a group including Dorothy Hodgkin, and utilising computer analysis provided by Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood.	0
30 Nov 1953 Joseph Needham	science	Joseph Needham (history of science) Joseph Needham begins publication of Science and Civilisation in China (Cambridge University Press).	0
30 Nov 1953 Charles Singer	science	Charles Singer (history of science) A History of Technology, edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard and A. R. Hall, begins publication (Oxford University Press).	0
30 Nov 1953 Leonard Jimmie Savage	science	Leonard Jimmie Savage (mathematics) Leonard Jimmie Savage publishes Foundations of Statistics, promoting Bayesian statistics.	0
30 Nov 1953 anti-psychotic	science	anti-psychotic (medicine) The first of the anti-psychotic phenothiazine drugs, Chlorpromazine, starts being sold under the trade names Thorazine (U.S.) and Largactil (U.K.)	0
30 Nov 1953 sucrose gap	science	sucrose gap (medicine) The sucrose gap is introduced by Robert Stämpfli for the reliable measurement of action potential in nerve fibers.	0
30 Nov 1953 General Conference on Weights and Measures	science	General Conference on Weights and Measures (metrology) 10th General Conference on Weights and Measures proposes the six original SI base units.	0
30 Nov 1953 Konrad Lorenz	science	Konrad Lorenz (psychology) Man Meets Dog is published by Konrad Lorenz.	0
30 Nov 1953 New Zealand	science	New Zealand (technology) New Zealand engineer Sir William Hamilton develops the first pump-jet engine (the "Hamilton Jet") capable of propelling a jetboat.	0
30 Nov 1953 drip brew	science	drip brew (technology) The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.	0
30 Nov 1953 Fields Prize in Mathematics	science	Fields Prize in Mathematics (awards) Fields Prize in Mathematics: Kunihiko Kodaira and Jean-Pierre Serre, the latter being the youngest-ever winner, at age 27	0
30 Nov 1953 Kevin Warwick	science	birth Kevin Warwick February 9 - Kevin Warwick, British scientist, author of March of the Machines.	0

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