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Science on the 30th of November 1965 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1965 Walter C. Pitman	science	Walter C. Pitman (earth science) Walter C. Pitman and James Heirtzler present the "magic" Eltanin marine magnetic anomaly profile that confirms the hypothesis of seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges.	0
30 Nov 1965 Mountain Pygmy Possum	science	Mountain Pygmy Possum (biology) The first live specimen of a Mountain Pygmy Possum (Burramys parvus), Australia's only truly hibernating marsupial, previously known only from the fossil record, is discovered.	0
30 Nov 1965 German	science	German (biology) German entomologist Willi Hennig's Phylogenetic Systematics is published in English, advancing the study of cladistics.	0
30 Nov 1965 Martin Richards	science	Martin Richards (computer science) Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.	0
30 Nov 1965 Roger MacGowan	science	Roger MacGowan (computer science) Roger MacGowan and Frederick Ordway first suggest the concept of machine superorganisms in Intelligence in the Universe.	0
30 Nov 1965 Chen Jingrun	science	Chen Jingrun (mathematics) Chen Jingrun publishes Chen's theorem: every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of a prime and a semiprime.	0
30 Nov 1965 David Mumford	science	David Mumford (mathematics) David Mumford introduces Mumford–Tate groups.	0
30 Nov 1965 Gynecologist	science	Gynecologist (physiology and medic) Gynecologist John McLean Morris and biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen at the Yale School of Medicine report the successful use of oral high-dose estrogen pills for post-coital contraception in women and rhesus macaque monkeys respectively.	0
30 Nov 1965 Victor A. McKusick	science	Victor A. McKusick (physiology and medic) Victor A. McKusick publishes the first edition of his catalogue of all known genes and genetic disorders, Mendelian Inheritance in Man.	0
30 Nov 1965 Andreas Rett	science	Andreas Rett (physiology and medic) Andreas Rett first describes Rett syndrome.	0
30 Nov 1965 Masters and Johnson	science	Masters and Johnson (psychology) Human Sexual Response is published by Masters and Johnson.	0
30 Nov 1965 Konrad Lorenz	science	Konrad Lorenz (psychology) On Aggression and Behind the Mirror are published by Konrad Lorenz.	0
30 Nov 1965 Fields Prize in Mathematics	science	Fields Prize in Mathematics (awards) Fields Prize in Mathematics: Michael Atiyah, Paul Joseph Cohen, Alexander Grothendieck and Stephen Smale	0
30 Nov 1965 Turing Award	science	Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Alan Perlis	0

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