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Science on the 30th of November 1982 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1982 Derek Freeman	science	Derek Freeman (anthropology) New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, critical of Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) by Margaret Mead (d. 1978).	0
30 Nov 1982 US Federal Government	science	US Federal Government (computer science) The US Federal Government standardizes Ada (programming language), a strongly typed, comb-structured computer language, with exception handlers, for general-purpose programming.	0
30 Nov 1982 Word processor	science	Word processor (computer science) Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.	0
30 Nov 1982 Keith Thomas	science	Keith Thomas (history of science) Keith Thomas publishes Man and the Natural World: changing attitudes in England, 1500–1800.	0
30 Nov 1982 Daniel Gorenstein	science	Daniel Gorenstein (mathematics) Daniel Gorenstein (with Richard Lyons) proves the trichotomy theorem for finite simple groups of characteristic 2 type and rank at least 4, and announces that proof of the classification of finite simple groups is complete (although that for quasithin groups has not been demonstrated at this time).	0
30 Nov 1982 Spain	science	Spain (organizations) Spain re-joins CERN after having left in 1969 (originally joined for the first time in 1961).	0
30 Nov 1982 Turing Award	science	Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie	0
30 Nov 1982 Bruce Irons	science	death Bruce Irons December 6 - Bruce Irons, engineer	0

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