Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 30
- 1756 – Birth of Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
- 1768 – Birth of Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
- 1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking
- 1858 – Birth of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
- 1869 – Birth of Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
- 1915 – Birth of Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph
- 1936 – Birth of Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
- 2007 – Death of Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)