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Science on the 30th of November 1954 in history

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30 Nov 1954 Jan Oort
Jan Oort

 Jan Oort (astronomy)
Jan Oort confirms that polarized light from the Crab Nebula is produced by synchrotron radiation.
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30 Nov 1954 ENIAC
ENIAC

 ENIAC (computer science)
The ENIAC computer is deactivated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, having been in continuous operation since 1947.
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30 Nov 1954 Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe

 Luftwaffe (computer science)
Former Luftwaffe flying ace Ulrich Steinhilper, a German IBM typewriter salesman, coins and popularizes the term "Textverarbeitung" ("word processing").
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30 Nov 1954 Maurice Wilkes
Maurice Wilkes

 Maurice Wilkes (computer science)
Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming.
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30 Nov 1954 RAND
RAND

 RAND (computer science)
RAND publishes A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.
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30 Nov 1954 American
American

 American (earth sciences)
American geophysicist Clair Cameron Patterson presents his result for the age of the earth using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite – 4.55 billion years (± 70 million).
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30 Nov 1954 Industrial archaeology
Industrial archaeology

 Industrial archaeology (history of science a)
The term "Industrial archaeology" first appears in print.
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30 Nov 1954 classification of finite simple groups
classification of finite simple groups

 classification of finite simple groups (mathematics)
In the classification of finite simple groups, the Brauer–Fowler theorem is published and Claude Chevalley introduces Chevalley groups.
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04 Jul 2015 Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model
Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model

 Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model (mathematics)
Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model for probability distribution of riffle shuffle permutations in shuffling playing cards reported.
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30 Nov 1954 Taniyama–Shimura conjecture
Taniyama–Shimura conjecture

 Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (mathematics)
The Taniyama–Shimura conjecture is first stated by Yutaka Taniyama at an international symposium in Japan.
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30 Nov 1954 chronic fatigue syndrome
chronic fatigue syndrome

 chronic fatigue syndrome (medicine)
Outbreak of "Royal Free disease" or "benign myalgic encephalomyelitis", strongly resembling what will later be known as chronic fatigue syndrome, among staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
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30 Nov 1954 antiproton
antiproton

 antiproton (physics)
Existence of the antiproton is experimentally confirmed by University of California, Berkeley, physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain.
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30 Nov 1954 University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool

 University of Liverpool (physics)
University of Liverpool cyclotron begins operation.
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30 Nov 1954 Strömsund Bridge
Strömsund Bridge

 Strömsund Bridge (technology)
Strömsund Bridge in Sweden completed, the first significant cable-stayed bridge of the modern era.
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30 Nov 1954 Swiss
Swiss

 Swiss (technology)
Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral is granted a patent for the Velcro fabric hook-and-loop fastener.
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30 Nov 1954 Bernard Heuvelmans
Bernard Heuvelmans

 Bernard Heuvelmans (zoology)
French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans publishes Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées ("On the Track of Unknown Animals"), pioneering the pseudoscientific field of cryptozoology.
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30 Nov 1954 Eugene Garfield
Eugene Garfield

 Eugene Garfield (publications)
Eugene Garfield proposes the concept of citation indexing for scientific literature.
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30 Nov 1954 Huda Zoghbi
Huda Zoghbi

 birth
Huda Zoghbi
Huda Zoghbi, Lebanese-born geneticist.
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