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Science on the 30th of November 1995 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1995 yeast	science	yeast (biology) The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome is sequenced, the first eukaryotic genome to be fully sequenced.	0
30 Nov 1995 Robin Li	science	Robin Li (computer science) The page ranking web search engine RankDex is originated by Robin Li.	0
30 Nov 1995 Brewster Kahle	science	Brewster Kahle (computer science) Brewster Kahle, with Bruce Gilliat, develops the Wayback Machine software to crawl and archive World Wide Web pages.	0
30 Nov 1995 Lov Grover	science	Lov Grover (computer science) Lov Grover, at Bell Labs, publishes the quantum database search algorithm.	0
30 Nov 1995 IRCnet	science	IRCnet (computer science) IRCnet is founded.	0
30 Nov 1995 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease	science	Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (medicine) New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease first identified in humans, in the United Kingdom.	0
30 Nov 1995 Sildenafil	science	Sildenafil (medicine) Sildenafil (Viagra), a treatment for erectile dysfunction, is patented by Pfizer.	0
30 Nov 1995 David Chalmers	science	David Chalmers (philosophy) Australian philosopher David Chalmers publishes The Conscious Mind: in search of a fundamental theory.	0
30 Nov 1995 Zenith	science	Zenith (technology) Zenith introduces the first HDTV-compatible front projection television in the United States. Broadcasters, TV & PC manufacturers set industry standards for digital HDTV.	0
30 Nov 1995 APS	science	APS (technology) APS film format is introduced.	0
30 Nov 1995 magnetic refrigeration	science	magnetic refrigeration (technology) Successful demonstration of magnetic refrigeration.	0
30 Nov 1995 Ilya Prigogine	science	Ilya Prigogine (publications) Belgian physical chemist Ilya Prigogine publishes La Fin des certitudes (translated as The End of Certainty: time, chaos, and the new laws of nature).	0
30 Nov 1995 Sokal affair	science	Sokal affair (publications) May - Sokal affair: American mathematical physicist Alan Sokal hoaxes the editors into publishing a deliberately nonsensical paper, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", in a "science wars" issue of the journal Social Text (Duke University Press) as a critique of the intellectual rigor of postmodernism in academic cultural studies.	0
30 Nov 1995 Turing Award for Computing	science	Turing Award for Computing (awards) Turing Award for Computing: Amir Pnueli	0
30 Nov 1995 Wollaston Medal for Geology	science	Wollaston Medal for Geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Nicholas John Shackleton	0

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