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Science on the 30th of November 1958 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1958 Coma Berenicids	science	Coma Berenicids (astronomy and space ) Coma Berenicids discovered.	0
30 Nov 1958 nuclear thermal rocket	science	nuclear thermal rocket (astronomy and space ) First successful test of a nuclear thermal rocket engine, as part of Project Rover at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States under Raemer Schreiber.	0
30 Nov 1958 acrylamide	science	acrylamide (chemistry) B. J. Davis and Leonard Ornstein first describe the use of acrylamide in gel electrophoresis at a scientific meeting.	0
30 Nov 1958 IBM	science	IBM (computer science) IBM ship the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe.	0
30 Nov 1958 Edsger W. Dijkstra	science	Edsger W. Dijkstra (computer science) Edsger W. Dijkstra rediscovers 'Prim's algorithm'.	0
30 Nov 1958 Society for the History of Technology	science	Society for the History of Technology (history of science) Society for the History of Technology begins publication of the journal Technology and Culture.	0
30 Nov 1958 Kenkichi Iwasawa	science	Kenkichi Iwasawa (mathematics) Kenkichi Iwasawa initiates Iwasawa theory.	0
30 Nov 1958 Joseph Murray	science	Joseph Murray (medicine) Joseph Murray performs the world's first successful allotransplantation.	0
30 Nov 1958 Georges Mathé	science	Georges Mathé (medicine) Georges Mathé, a French oncologist, performs the first bone marrow transplant on five Yugoslavian nuclear workers whose own marrow has been damaged by intense irradiation caused by a criticality accident at the Vinča Nuclear Institute, but all of these transplants are rejected.	0
30 Nov 1958 HIV	science	HIV (medicine) First known case of human HIV, in the Belgian Congo.	0
30 Nov 1958 Yakir Aharonov	science	Yakir Aharonov (physics) Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predict the Aharonov–Bohm effect.	0
30 Nov 1958 Agfa	science	Agfa (technology) Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.	0
30 Nov 1958 Eveready Battery	science	Eveready Battery (technology) Eveready Battery engineer Lewis Urry invents the long-lasting alkaline battery.	0
30 Nov 1958 Gordon Gould	science	Gordon Gould (technology) Gordon Gould publishes the term Laser.	0
30 Nov 1958 Pilkington Brothers	science	Pilkington Brothers (technology) Pilkington Brothers patent the float glass process invented by Alastair Pilkington.	0
30 Nov 1958 CERN	science	CERN (organisations) Austria joins CERN.	0

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