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30 Nov 1959
Dutch |
Dutch (astronomy and space ) Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. |
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30 Nov 1959
Juan Oro |
Juan Oro (biology) Juan Oro finds that concentrated solutions of ammonium cyanide in water can produce the nucleotide adenine. |
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30 Nov 1959
Jerard Hurwitz |
Jerard Hurwitz (biology) Four independent researchers (Sam Weiss, Jerard Hurwitz, Audrey Stevens and J. Bonner) discover the bacterial RNA polymerase that regulates the polymerization of nucleotides under the control of DNA. |
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30 Nov 1959
Climatron |
Climatron (biology) Climatron geodesic dome greenhouse opens at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. |
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30 Nov 1959
John McCarthy |
John McCarthy (computer science) John McCarthy of MIT publishes the Lisp programming language. |
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30 Nov 1959
Harry Hammond Hess |
Harry Hammond Hess (earth sciences) Harry Hammond Hess proposes the concept of seafloor spreading. |
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30 Nov 1959
Wacław Sierpiński |
Wacław Sierpiński (mathematics) Wacław Sierpiński proves the existence of Sierpinski numbers. |
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30 Nov 1959
classification of finite simple groups |
classification of finite simple groups (mathematics) In the classification of finite simple groups, Michio Suzuki and Rimhak Ree introduce Suzuki–Ree groups; and John G. Thompson, Walter Feit and Marshall Hall prove that a group with a fixed-point-free automorphism of prime order is nilpotent, and that all finite simple CN groups of odd order are cyclic. |
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30 Nov 1959
halogen lamp |
halogen lamp (technology) A tungsten halogen lamp bulb is patented by General Electric engineer Fredrick Moby. |
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30 Nov 1959
Pentax Spotmatic |
Pentax Spotmatic (technology) Prototype Pentax Spotmatic single-lens reflex camera, pioneering through-the-lens metering, is presented. |
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